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 VI JOHANNES VERMEER 581 PUPILS AND IMITATORS OF JOHANNES VERMEER Most of the pupils of Vermeer have been already discussed with the imitators of P. de Hooch. They need not be mentioned again. Here it may be added that a usually very feeble artist of the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth centuries, Dirck Jan van der Laan, painted a few pictures with effects of sunlight which, during a generation of art- criticism that was imperfectly acquainted with Vermeer's art, contrived to pass as works of that great master (see the museums at Berlin and Aix- la-Chapelle). A CLASSIFIED SUMMARY OF THE CONTENTS I. BIBLICAL SUBJECTS, i. " Christ in the House of Mary and Martha," i. II. ALLEGORICAL AND MYTHOLOGICAL SUBJECTS, 2, 3. 1. "Allegory of the New Testa- ment," 2. 2. "Diana at her Toilet," 3. III. GENRE-SCENES, 4-41^. 1. Students, 4-7^. (a) Astronomer, 4-6. (b) Physician, 7. (r) Nun reading, Ja. 2. Artist, 8. 3. Marketing scenes, 9-10^. 4. Domestic scenes, 11-22*-. 5. Music scenes, 22^-30^. (a) Lady alone, 22^-26. (^) Lady and Gentleman, 27-28. (c) Several persons, 29-30^. 6. Love scenes, 31-41^. (a) Reading letters, 31-35^. (3) Writing letters, 36. (f) Lady and Gentleman, 37-40^. (d) Brothel scenes, 41-41/7. 7. Fair, 41^. IV. PORTRAITS, 42-46^. V. LANDSCAPES, 47-54.