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Title: A child's guide to pictures
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918
Subjects: Painting -- Study and teaching
Publisher: New York, Baker & Taylor
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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d-ing is what interests him, and has been throughoutthe afternoon the motive of his walk. His compan-ion, on the other hand, agrees to go along with him,not so much because he is interested in the house,although he is to some extent, but mostly becausehe loves a walk. He enjoys the exhilaration of theexercise; he is fond of the wood through which theyhave to pass. He will have a chance to hunt forthe first signs of spring—^the early skunk-cabbage,the shy peep of the violet through the dead leavesunderfoot, the rose blush of the maples overhead, thepiping and flicker of the first bird-arrivals and soon. The real motive of his walk is the joy of ex-ercise and of the beauties met with on the way.Visiting the house was but an excuse. There is the same distinction among painters. Tosome the representation of the incident is the mainthing; to others, the rendering of the beauties whichit involves. Vermeer, like the other Dutch artists,of the Seventeenth Century, belonged to the latter 108
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Young Woman Opening a Window. Johannes Vermeer. (Pioperfy of The MetroYKtlitan Museum of Art.) ^Naturalistic Composition class. Since, however, his subject is the peg onwhich he hangs his arrangement of light and color,let us begin by examining it. A young woman is standing between a table anda window. With one hand she opens the casementwhile the other grasps the handle of a brass pitcherthat stands in an ewer of the same material. Per-haps she is going to water some flowers that are out-side on the window sill. Her costume consists of adark blue skirt, buff-colored bodice, and a broadcollar and hood-like cap of thin white linen. Thetable is covered with an oriental cloth, on whichis a yellow jewel case, while over the blue chair liesa cloak of lighter blue. On the gray wall hangsa map. This and the table cloth may remind us,that the Dutch of that period, although they werefighting for their political liberty against Spain,found means to build ships and carry on trade acrossthe sea w

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