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Children Playing with a Goat, Jacob de Wit, European Paintings

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1906 Size: 26 3/4 x 41 in. (67.9 x 104.1 cm) Medium: Oil on canvas

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437949

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Design for a Panel with Four Putti Decorating a Herm (Terminal Figure) with Garlands of Fruit and Foliage, Jacob de Wit, ca. 1720–40, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Drawings and Prints

Purchase, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1971 Size: 16 1/8 x 6 3/4 in. (40.9 x 17.2 cm) (silhouetted into arch at top) Medium: Red chalk. Inlaid into heavy paper mount with brown and gold framing lines

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/335882

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Jupiter, Disguised as Diana, Seducing the Nymph Callisto by Jacob de Wit, 1727, Museum of the Netherlands

Jacob de Wit specialized in decorative paintings for town and country houses. He designed entire ensembles, with large paintings and overdoors set in panels. He decided where the paintings were to be placed and adapted the compositions and the fall of light accordingly. This painting and its pendant (to the left of the mantelpiece) were made for the country house of an Amsterdam citizen situated along the River Vecht.

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