Question

An artist with this first name painted a possible political allegory in which an approaching dog in the lower-left corner is repelled by a large white swan. This is the first name of an artist whose careers as a brewer and innkeeper influenced paintings like Beware of Luxury and The Dancing Couple. That artist with this first name painted rowdy genre scenes like The Feast of Saint Nicholas and inspired two “interiors” in a series by Joan Miró. (10[1])Many of the 34 paintings attributed to an artist with this first name are set in a room of his home with checkered floors and a shining window (10[1])on the left. (10[1])Those paintings include one in which a foot warmer sits on the floor behind a domestic worker as she pours the title liquid. For 10 points, give this first name of the Dutch Golden Age painter of The Milkmaid. ■END■

ANSWER: Jan (“yahn”) [or Johannes; accept Jan Asselijn or Jan Steen or Jan Vermeer or Johannes Vermeer] (The first painting is The Threatened Swan by Jan Asselijn. Miró’s series is Dutch Interiors.)
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Nathan SheffieldMIT ABrown A7710
James McCurleyHarvard BBrandeis A10510
Joy AnHarvard ABrandeis B10810

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