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18th Century Miniature Oil on Panel in Period Fra

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Unsigned Dutch Late 18th Century Medium- Oil Style- Realism Subject- Woman Reading by Window Panel measures 6 1/4 by 4 inches and framed measures 10 1/4 by 8 inches. Genre painting is that which portrays scenes of everyday people going about everyday activities. Usually Genre paintings are narrative meaning they are telling a story. Dutch seventeenth-century artists Jan Steen Jan Vermeer and Pieter de Hooch first used genre as subject matter. In American painting the word genre was first used in the mid-19th century to describe works that showed daily life usually as it applied to Manifest Destiny or America expanding westward.