Catalogue of paintings and drawings. . THE MERRYMAKERSHEXDRIK MAERTEXSZ SORGH 62 HEXDRIK MAERTEXSZ SORC^H Dutch, ca. i6i 1-1670THE MERRVMAKKRS Sorghs Merrymakers is typical of the Dutch seventeenthcentury. The still life, though perfectly subordinated to itsambient, takes on, as in Brouwer, the Ostades, and the EnglishHogarth, an individuality of its own. The grotesque figuresand commonplace objects are given distinction by the pervadingcolour and tonal values. The table, bench, and the floor itself,have that intimacy which such things assume when, throughlong and familiar use, they become an
Catalogue of paintings and drawings. . THE MERRYMAKERSHEXDRIK MAERTEXSZ SORGH 62 HEXDRIK MAERTEXSZ SORC^H Dutch, ca. i6i 1-1670THE MERRVMAKKRS Sorghs Merrymakers is typical of the Dutch seventeenthcentury. The still life, though perfectly subordinated to itsambient, takes on, as in Brouwer, the Ostades, and the EnglishHogarth, an individuality of its own. The grotesque figuresand commonplace objects are given distinction by the pervadingcolour and tonal values. The table, bench, and the floor itself,have that intimacy which such things assume when, throughlong and familiar use, they become an indispensable part of theenvironment they help to create. In the interiors by Dutchpainters objects seem to take their places in an airy that medium cannot be seen, it is, as it were, inevitablyfelt by the eye because of the enriching softness given everywhereto the light which pervades colours and outlines. Oil on panel, 22 inches by 30 inches. Signed 63. THE TAILOR SHOPQUIRIXGH GERRITSZ VAN BREKELEXKAM 64 QUIRIXC^H GERRITSZ \AN BRKKELFAKAM Dutch, 1620-1668THE TAILOR SHOP Among the lesser Dutch painters \an l^rckelcnkani has aplace of importance. In contrast with Dou, Terborch, MIerls,and Metsu, who painted the leisurely burgher class, and withSteen and Tenlers, who depicted the coarse or joyous roisteringof boors, Brekelenkam was particularly the painter of the truework-a-day life of the humbler professions. The Tailor Shopresembles Brekelenkams plcttire. The Tailor s Workroom, Inthe Rljks Museum at Amsterdam. Brekelenkams colouring Is less delicate and luminous thanthat of the greatest little masters, but It Is bold, strong, andIndividual. A somewhat modern and yet primitive qualityappears In his calculated looseness of touch and its frank trustto the fusing power of a moderate distance. In one respect he Ispartially an innovator. Certain greys of Hals, the cool lemonsand pearls of Terborch, and many decided passages In Brouwer,had^b
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