The casual, over-the-shoulder look of the model that gives the work so much personality is actually a standard pose used by Dutch painters to convey three-dimensional depth. The fanciful hat ...
"Excuse me," a man says, his hand on the back of a young girl. "Can I get a picture of my granddaughter in front of this one?" He points to Jacob van Riosdael's "Wooded Landscape with Windmill.
Christie's is offering a group of important and highly collectable 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), during two live ...