The Quiet Life of a Dutch Painter Born in The Hague in 1630, Barend le Petit lived through a period of immense change in the Netherlands. He was a painter who navigated the artistic landscape of the seventeenth century, finding his place within the Dutch Golden Age. His life was centered in The Hague, the same city where he would eventually pass away in 1669. While history often focuses on the most famous names of the era, le Petit rep…