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Gerrit Dou

1613 - 1675

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Gerrit Dou (7 April 1613 – 9 February 1675), also known as Gerard Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders. He specialised in genre scenes and is noted for his trompe-l'œil "niche" paintings and candlelit night-scenes with strong chiaroscuro. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerrit Dou has received more than 235,741 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Gerrit Dou is the 125th most popular painter (up from 287th in 2019), the 38th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 104th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Dutch Painter.

Gerrit Dou is most famous for his paintings of beautiful women.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Gerrit Dou ranks 125 out of 2,023. Before him are Yayoi Kusama, Apelles, Arnold Böcklin, Andrea del Sarto, Gustave Moreau, and Parmigianino. After him are Hans Memling, John Constable, Carl Larsson, Franz Marc, Jean Fouquet, and Jan Steen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1613, Gerrit Dou ranks 2. Before him is François de La Rochefoucauld. After him are André Le Nôtre, Claude Perrault, John George II, Elector of Saxony, Mattia Preti, Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Jean François Paul de Gondi, Bartholomeus van der Helst, Khushal Khattak, and Luisa de Guzmán. Among people deceased in 1675, Gerrit Dou ranks 2. Before him is Johannes Vermeer. After him are Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, James Gregory, Thomas Willis, Gilles de Roberval, Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, Guru Tegh Bahadur, Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, and Leopoldo de' Medici.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Gerrit Dou ranks 38 out of 1,646. Before him are William III of England (1650), Marco van Basten (1964), William II of the Netherlands (1792), Guus Hiddink (1946), André Rieu (1949), and Rinus Michels (1928). After him are Johan Huizinga (1872), Jan van Riebeeck (1619), Jan Steen (1626), Ruud Gullit (1962), Theo van Gogh (1857), and Frank Rijkaard (1962).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Gerrit Dou ranks 7. Before him are Vincent van Gogh (1853), Rembrandt (1606), Johannes Vermeer (1632), Piet Mondrian (1872), Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525), and Hieronymus Bosch (1450). After him are Jan Steen (1626), Theo van Gogh (1857), Jacob van Ruisdael (1628), Han van Meegeren (1889), Pieter de Hooch (1629), and Dieric Bouts (1415).

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