Sujet

Interior with Painter, Woman Reading and Maid Sweeping, c1665-1670. Creator: Pieter Janssens Elinga.

Légende

Interior with Painter, Woman Reading and Maid Sweeping, c1665-1670. A quiet interior: a maid sweeps the floor while the lady of the house sits at a table, perhaps immersed in a songbook. Her elegantly dressed husband stands in the adjacent room, a palette in his right hand. The latter figure may be a self-portrait of the painter Pieter Janssens Elinga, who is known to have been left-handed. His chief concern in this work, however, was the interplay of light and shade, the reflections, perspectives and outlooks-even at the cost of a truthful depiction: geometrically laid marble floors were rare in bourgeois households in Holland.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM26A13_312

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Droits gérés

Format disponible

146.7Mo (7.8Mo) / 66.9cm x 55.0cm / 7896 x 6494 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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