An Evening School
Gerrit Dou
ca. 1655–57 · Oil on wood · European Paintings
This small night scene extols the virtues of teaching (light passed on) and practice (the sharpened pen), which the much admired Aristotle recommended as paths to knowledge. The subject would have appealed to many in Dou’s city of Leiden, home of a famous university.
- Artist
- Gerrit Dou
- Date
- ca. 1655–57
- Medium
- Oil on wood
- Department
- European Paintings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Lillian M. Ellis, 1940
