new favorite artist

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Not really new, old: but I just realized that a bunch of my favorite paintings, incljuding some I saw last year in Amsterdam!, are by Gerrit Dou. You can see his paintings at The Web Gallery of Art, but it's all frames and crap so I can't send you straight to the page of his paintings, not even the thumbnails.

While we're talking about Dutch Masters, yiou all know all about Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Rubens: but Jan Steen has the added grace of a sense of humor.