A Couple Making Love in a Park Spied on by Children
Summary
The Rotterdam painter Adriaen van der Werff made elegant, meticulously executed little paintings. This was the style of the Dutch fijnschilders (‘fine painters’), who worked in a highly polished manner to depict reality as precisely as possible. The skin of the woman here is painted so smoothly it looks like porcelain. She looks out at us, realizing that she and her lover are being spied on by us, as well as the two children behind the bushes.
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paintings
panel
oil paint paint
oil on panel
adriaen van der werff
high resolution
painting collection rijksmuseum
netherlands
dutch
dutch paintings
couple
love
erotic art
rijksmuseum
Date
1694
Source
Rijksmuseum
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Copyright info
Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")