An Evening School ca. 1655–57 Gerrit Dou Dutch This small night scene extols the virtues of teaching (light passed on) and practice (the sharpened pen), which the much admired Aristotle recommended as paths to knowledge. The subject would have appealed to many in Dou’s city of Leiden, home of a famous An Evening School 436209

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