03 — ARTWORK
The Dancing Lesson
- MEDIUM
- Oil on panel, 40 x 53 cm
- TYPE
- Genre
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
UNDERLINED TERMS ARE DEFINED IN THE GLOSSARY.
Pieter Codde and Willem Duyster were the two most prominent genreIn a broad sense, the term is used to mean a particular branch or category of art; landscape and portraiture, for example, are genres of painting, and the essay and the short story are genres of literature. painters in Amsterdam during the 1620s and 1630s. Both became specialists in this field after some initialthe first letter of the text in medieval manuscripts and early printed books, made to stand out emphatically by its colour, size, and ornamentation. forays into portraiture. Their genre paintings, which reveal an intimate knowledge of contemporary artistic developments in Haarlem, comprise an important transitional stage, both thematically and stylistically, between Buytewech's spirited interiors and the graceful images produced by the next generation of genre painters, epitomized by the work of Gerard Terborch and Johannes Vermeer.
This painting is an example of the genre scenes painted with a monochromePainted in a single color; a painting executed in a single color. (grey) palette fashionable in this period. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 4 minutes):<BR><A HREF="#" onClick="w=window.open ('/music1/19_cent/rossini_la_danza.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350');w.opener=this;w.focus();return true"><B>Gioacchino Rossini: La Danza</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE>
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@online{wga-r023fc87e588ab1,
author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {The Dancing Lesson by CODDE, Pieter},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/codde-pieter-r898063a76060e2/the-dancing-lesson-r023fc87e588ab1},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
