Volume 41, Number 4 · February 17, 1994
Dutch Treat
By Peter C. Sutton
Judith Leyster: A Dutch Master and Her World Netherlands, May 16–August 22, 1993, and Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, September 19–December 5, 1993.
by James A. Welu, by Pieter Biesboer et al.. catalog of an exhibition held at the Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, The
Worcester Art Museum/Yale University Press, 391 pp., $60.00
Many foreigners who visited Holland during its Golden Age in the seventeenth century remarked on the extraordinary qualities of Dutch women, not only their industrious domestic virtues but also their social informality, even their commercial savvy and enterprise. Like Lodovico Guicciardini and Fynes Moryson before him, the English observer James Howell was much impressed by the business acumen of Dutch women. 'In Holland the wives are so well versed in bargaining, ciphering and writing; that in the absence of their husbands on long sea voyages they beat the trade at home, and their word will pass in equal credit.'[1]
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