Jacob Lucasz. Ochtervelt was born and worked in Rotterdam. He was a pupil of Nicolaes Berchem in Haarlem at the same time as Pieter de Hooch, and some of his early interiors are similar to de Hooch's. He was a genre painter.
Jacob Ochtervelt
1634 - 1682
Paintings by Jacob Ochtervelt
In an elegant interior adorned with a landscape painting on the wall and a classical bust above the door, a man and a woman are making music together. The lady, clad in a luxurious red satin dress with gold embroidery, is standing with her back to us in front of a harpsichord. She looks down at t...
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An elegantly dressed young woman is in the act of grooming herself – we see her cutting her fingernails with a pair of scissors. A maidservant brings a silver ewer and dish for washing hands, while the big basin in the left foreground probably serves to wash her feet and other parts of her body.T...
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Jacob Ochtervelt has focused our gaze on a brilliantly dressed woman standing at a virginal. Light falls onto her bare left shoulder and on the huge double dome of red satin that forms the back of the skirt and its train. She seems cut off from an intimate exchange between a female singer and a v...
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