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Pompeius Occo, Dirck Jacobsz, c. 1531
Pompeius Occo developed into a key figure in the Northern European economy and was one of Amsterdam’s most prosperous residents. From around 1511, he represented the successful banking and trading house of the Augsburg Fuggers in this emerging metropolis. Occo’s portrait expresses the generally prevailing awareness that all worldly prosperity is transient. His left hand rests almost tenderly on a skull.

Purchased with a contribution from the J. Loudon Bequest
oil on panel, h 66.5cm × w 55.1cm
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Man Smoking a Pipe, Gerard Dou, c. 1650
A young man leans on a window ledge, smoking a pipe and looking out at us. Dou was a master of illusionism. The open book on the sill seems to protrude from the window into our space, and the green curtain hanging from the copper rod is so realistically painted that we are tempted to draw it farther back. However, the painting’s small size gives away the deception.

Dupper Wzn. Bequest, Dordrecht
oil on panel, h 48cm × w 37cm
rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/S
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