Some the Hague

[Fons Baerken]

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[Akira]

The Music Lesson!

[Fons Baerken]

1 over  Central Station

2 statue Willem van Oranje in Plein

3 near entrance Mauritshuis

4 Johannes Vermeer "Musiclesson", Mauritshuis

5 Glas, Gemeentemuseum

6 Cafe, Gemeentemuseum

[Fons Baerken]

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ifo Central station

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Mauritshuis

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Gemeentemuseum

[PeterN]

Wonderful impression, Fons. It's obvious where you've been. My favorite is the Gemeentemuseum shot. Too bad there are two couples instead of one person. Ah well, PS may come to rescue. ;-)
Thanks for sharing.

[Fons Baerken]

Thank you Peter, i go easy on the editing out of people,
sounds like a pun, but really.

[Fons Baerken]

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[Anthony]

Fons, I really like the first four, because they are your unique take on the place in the title.

[Fons Baerken]

Thank you Anthony

[Olivier]

Many great pictures Fons, with different styles. Maybe you could arrange them in more homogeneous series to work around several themes?
I remember reading a fascinating analysis of the Music Lesson, by the late Daniel Arasse. he made everything so clear... Obviously you arrived at a time when the lesson also took place in front of the painting, making the scene even more interresting.

[Erik Lund]

Familiar streets indeed I like #13 rally graphical strong.

[Jakov Minić]

Isn't The Hague beautiful

[Akira]

Love the yellow room shot!

[Almass]

The Music Lesson of Vermeer brings back memories during my school days where we admired the painting details made special by Vermeer artistry and where we obliterated the questionable shadows volume and transitions.

Vermeer who was great in detail did not seem to have brought the same attention to the shadows although he was pretty much into the Chiaroscuro period. Still, he is a Master painter.

[Fons Baerken]

The Music Lesson of Vermeer brings back memories during my school days where we admired the painting details made special by Vermeer artistry and where we obliterated the questionable shadows volume and transitions.

Vermeer who was great in detail did not seem to have brought the same attention to the shadows although he was pretty much into the Chiaroscuro period. Still, he is a Master painter.

Indeed in this period a painter had to prove his mastership in details of fabric and tapistry, etc in other words finer details in
a play of light and shadow, with this piece is  a good example, the drapery here is in focus while the scene we know as the music-lesson remains out of direct focus.
In the Maurits there is an exhibition on that period, on loan from British collectors, personally i liked the paintings of Geerard Dou in the Mauritshuis.