A Man Weighing Gold

1670 · Private collection

genre

From about the mid-1660s onward, De Man painted stylish genre scenes that incorporate ideas adopted from works by De Hooch, Vermeer, and their contemporaries. The Man Weighing Gold is one of de Man's best-known and most beautiful genre paintings. In a comfortable interior, a gentleman weighs gold at a table watched by a seated woman, perhaps his wife.

About the Artist

Cornelis de Man

1621 – 1706

Dutch painter. He spent several years in Italy and France, an experience from which he did not greatly benefit for when he returned home he produced works with an abundance of detail, chiefly conversation pieces depicting middle-class life, in the manner of Vermeer and de Hooch. Although Pieter de Hooch had no recorded pupils he influenced and was imitated by other painters in Delft and Amsterdam, and since his own original works decline in his later period, his followers, among them de Man, come at times pretty close to him.

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