Editing Gerrit Dou (section)

==Cultural references==
In [[Honoré de Balzac]]'s 1831 novel ''[[La Peau de chagrin]]'', the curiosity shop Raphaël de Valentin enters in the opening sequence contains, among other paintings, "a Gerald Dow which resembled a page of [[Laurence Sterne|Sterne]]," and the old shopkeeper is compared to "Gerald Dow's ''Money-Changer''."

In the [[comic opera]] ''[[The Pirates of Penzance]]'', by [[Gilbert and Sullivan]], the [[Major-General's Song|Major-General brags]] of being able to distinguish works by [[Raphael]] from works by Dou and [[Johan Zoffany]].

Dou (as "Gerard Douw") is a character in [[J. Sheridan Le Fanu]]'s short story "Schalken the Painter". In the 1979 [[BBC]] television adaptation of this work, ''[[Schalcken the Painter]]'', he was played by [[Maurice Denham]].

Dou is portrayed on film by [[Toby Jones]] in ''[[Nightwatching]]'' (2007).

W. F. Harvey's short story "Old Masters" features a picture by Dou (as Gerhard Dow) as the subject of an ingenious scam. (The story is included in the 2009 Wordsworth Edition omnibus collection of Harvey's stories, "The Beast with Five Fingers".)

A group of boys in Mary Mapes Dodge's ''Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates'' visit a museum in Amsterdam and see two paintings by "Gerard Douw", "The Hermit" and "Evening School."

In the 2023 film, “[[The Little Mermaid (2023 film)|The Little Mermaid]]” Dou’s painting, Astronomer by Candlelight, is featured as a page in a book which the mermaid, [[Ariel (The Little Mermaid)|Ariel]], flips though while singing “[[Part of Your World]]”.