<exchanging gazes>  5: Interior Scenes. Women and Daily Life

The fifth edition in the series <exchanging gazes> focuses on the depiction of everyday life in painting. Interior scenes. Women and Daily Life brings together a selection of ten works from the Museum’s Permanent Collection that share an interest in depicting scenes of everyday, family and private life. Thematically and formally related but from different periods and places, these works establish a dialogue that will allow visitors to appreciate part of the evolution of a pictorial genre in 17^th-century Holland at a time when views of interiors became an independent pictorial genre. The exhibition also includes examples of 18^th-century French painting, which popularised images of women in private spaces, and the depiction of domestic scenes in the 19^th- and early 20^th- centuries.
This new installation is on display in the Balcony Gallery on the first floor, which has direct access from the Main Hall. Entry is free.