That painting, like all of that artist's work from this period, was wrongly attributed to a male contemporary until 1893.
An essay about this period of time argues that its paintings convey both a sense of "appetite" and "restraint." That essay, Simon Schama's "An Unruly Realm," opens by discussing a painting from this historical period in which a basket with playing cards hangs from the ceiling, and a woman stomps on the pages of a Bible. During this period, the chaotic painting Dissolute Household was produced, and an artist made a self-portrait in which a painting of a fiddling man was positioned behind a depiction of (*) herself. That painting, like all of that artist's work from this period, was wrongly attributed to a male contemporary until 1893. Judith Leyster was inducted into the Guild of St. Luke during this period; the guild's other members during this period include a man who depicted a crazy woman with an owl on her shoulder in Malle Babbe, and made a misleadingly-titled portrait of a smiling mustachioed militia officer. For 10 points, name this flourishing age during which Frans Hals worked.
An essay about this period of time argues that its paintings convey both a sense of "appetite" and "restraint.
Dutch Golden Age 