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    Going Dutch

    Mar 05, 2018 3 minutes
    JASON WILSON

    I WAS STANDING IN A ROOM at the National Gallery of Art last October, puzzling at three Dutch paintings of women with parrots: Gerrit Dou’s (1660), Frans van Mieris’s (1663), and Caspar Netscher’s (1666). Having come to see the 65 works making up Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry, I had already looked at three paintings of women with lutes; two of women with clavichords; a half dozen of women writing, reading, or sealing letters

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