Tag Archives: Pieter Codde, Dutch Golden Age, Dutch genre painting, Seventeenth-century Dutch art, Young Man with a Pipe, Portraiture, Genre painting, Melancholy, Solitude, Contemplation, Tonal painting, Dutch inte

Pieter Codde (1599–1678) is principally remembered for his paintings of fashionable company, musical gatherings and domestic interiors, subjects that occupied a prominent place in Dutch genre painting during the first half of the seventeenth century. His Young Man with a Pipe, in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lille, belongs to a less familiar aspect of hisContinue reading “Pieter Codde: The Solitary Figure”