The Dancing Lesson (1627). Pieter Codde (Dutch, 1599-1678). Oil on panel. Musée du Louvre, Paris.

Pieter Codde and Willem Duyster were the two most prominent genre painters in Amsterdam during the 1620s and 1630s. Both became specialists in this field after some initial forays into portraiture. Their genre paintings reveal an intimate knowledge of contemporary artistic developments in Haarlem. This painting is an example of the genre scenes painted with a monochrome (grey) palette fashionable in this period.

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