page_title: 1661 in art
section_title: Paintings
hierarchical_section_title: 1661 in art / Paintings
caption_attribution_description: Allegory of Air
context_page_description: Events from the year 1661 in art.
context_section_description: Filippo Abbiati - Coriolanus Persuaded By His Family To Raise the Siege of Rome
  Gerrit Dou - Old Lady with a Candle
  Gabriël Metsu
  Lovers at Breakfast
  The Visit to the Nursery, after the birth of Sara Hinlopen (1660)
  Reinier Nooms - Ships on the IJ at Amsterdam
  Rembrandt
  The Evangelist Matthew Inspired by the Angel
  Saint James The Elder
  Jan van Kessel, senior - Allegory of Air
  Jan Vermeer - View of Delft
  John Michael Wright - Charles II in Coronation Robes
caption: van Kessel – Allegory of Air
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