Dutch painters of the 17th century fed an avid market for pictures of vice and virtue in both humble and grand settings. This picture by Holland’s leading painter of humorous folklife, from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo collection, shows an overdressed soldier being gulled by a girl in an elegant-looking house of ill repute. Walsh discusses Jan Steen’s career and other varieties of genre painting.

Recorded on Friday, January 30, 2015, 1:30 pm.

1. Abraham Bloemaert’s Deluge and the Dawn of the Golden Age
2. Jan Steen’s Card Players and Dutch Genre Painting
3. Jacob van Ruisdael’s Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede and Dutch Landscape
4. The Night Watch: Rembrandt, Group Portraiture, and Dutch History
5. Frans Hals’s Portrait of a Preacher: Virtuosity and the Rough Style
6. Johannes Vermeer’s View of Delft: The Prose and Poetry of View Painting

In January and February 2015, John Walsh offered a series of six lectures that explores the Golden Age of Dutch art.

John Walsh, B.A. 1961, is Director Emeritus of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and a specialist in Dutch paintings. He was a paintings curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has taught history of art courses at Columbia and Harvard and currently teaches at Yale.