The Little Street: The Neighborhood in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Culture

Linda Stone-Ferrier

The Little Street: The Neighborhood in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Culture
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Yale University Press
Country
United States
Published
11 October 2022
Pages
208
ISBN
9780300259117

The Little Street: The Neighborhood in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Culture

Linda Stone-Ferrier

The neighborhood was a principal organizing structure of Dutch cities in the seventeenth century, and each had its own regulations, administrators, social networks, events, and diverse population of residents. Linda Stone-Ferrier argues that this sense of community contributed to the steady demand for pictures portraying aspects of this culture. These paintings, by such artists as Jan Steen and Pieter de Hooch, reinforced the role and values of the neighborhood. Through close readings of such works-by Steen and De Hooch and, among others, Gerrit Dou, Gabriel Metsu, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Johannes Vermeer-Stone-Ferrier deftly considers social history, urban studies, anthropology, and women’s studies in this penetrating exploration. Her new interpretations of seventeenth-century Dutch painting across genres-scenes of streets, domesticity, professions, and festivity-challenge existing paradigms in Dutch art history.

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