a photographer and independent curator from northern California

and restoration

Ulrich Bischoff is director of the Galerie Neue Meister

ISBN 978-0-89236-968-3

In this richly illustrated tale

Jan Steen: The Drawing Lesson CONS a photographer and independent curatorJohn Walsh Clear, solid, palpable, this is the world of the Dutch painters of the seventeenth centurya world in which the surfaces and scenes of everyday life are rendered with impeccable care and illuminated by clear, soft light. Through the countless reproductions of the works of painters like de Hooch and Vermeer, these scenes have become intimately familiar: servants at their kitchen chores; women reading, daydreaming, or playing music; risqu and