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DiaporamaA Kitchen
1643
52.0 x 44.0 cm
hendrick maertensz sorgh (1610 – 1670)
Explore Hendrick Maertensz Sorgh's Dutch Golden Age genre paintings! Intimate kitchen scenes, peasant life & market views by this Rotterdam master.
In this painting, Sorgh inflects a domestic scene with the art of still life. Two maids clean fish and peel vegetables in the foreground, surrounded by gleaming brass and earthenware. A closer look reveals a mischievous cat, an open birdcage, and, barely visible between the two servants, a couple caressing in the shadows. Even such seemingly innocuous elements as the earthenware pots would have carried an erotic connotation for seventeenth-century viewers.
About this artwork
- Title: A Kitchen
- Artist: hendrick maertensz sorgh
- Year: 1643
- Original dimensions: 52.0 x 44.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Color hue: Yellow-Green Range
- Perceived brightness: deep_shadow
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