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JAN JACOBSZ MOLENAER (1654-c.1690) "Kermesse". Oil on canvas. With informative label on the back. Signed. Measurements: 53 x 65 cm; 65 x 70 cm (frame). We see in this canvas the representation of a "kermesse", Dutch term that designates the popular peasant festivities typical of the Netherlands. It was undoubtedly in the paintings of the Dutch school that the consequences of the political emancipation of the region and the economic prosperity of the liberal bourgeoisie were most openly manifested. The combination of the discovery of nature, objective observation, the study of the concrete, the appreciation of the everyday, the taste for the real and the material, the sensitivity to the apparently insignificant, meant that the Dutch artist was at one with the reality of everyday life, without seeking any ideal that was alien to that same reality. The painter did not seek to transcend the present and the materiality of objective nature or to escape from tangible reality, but to envelop himself in it, to become intoxicated by it through the triumph of realism, a realism of pure illusory fiction, achieved thanks to a perfect, masterly technique and a conceptual subtlety in the lyrical treatment of light.