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The Kitchen Maid, ca. 1600

  • oil paint, canvas
  • 115.8 x 133.5 cm
  • Inv. 1914-IN

Public Domain

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A vast array of provisions is displayed in a pantry. The literature of the age reveals this to be more than a simple inventory of every available type of food. The forms of vegetables, fruits, fish and poultry were, as in medicine, associated with the shape of the human reproductive organs. Consequently, the foods exhibited here all have possible hidden meanings. The gestures of the beautifully dressed kitchen maid – her right hand rests on a cabbage, while she offers a bunch of grapes with the left – leaves no doubt that this painting is about fertility and eroticism. Such scenes were very popular amongst the nobility and bourgeoisie

Artist

Lucas van Valckenborch RKD Wikidata
Mechelen 1535 - 1536 - Frankfurt am Main 1597
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Title The Kitchen Maid
Date ca. 1600
Period 16th century
Location Delft TGN
Collection paintings AAT
Object type oil paintings (visual works) AAT
Inventory number 1914-IN
Acquisition credit bequest
Scribe, Fernand
Ghent
1914
Current whereabouts Work on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/1914-IN
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/763/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300139140 genre pictures AAT
Keywords Iconclass 25F6 fishes Iconclass
25G22(ONION) (non-fruit) products of plants or trees: onion Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31D15 adult woman Iconclass
41A771 container of metal: bucket, can, canister, drum, tin, etc. Iconclass
41A773 container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase Iconclass
41C21 kitchen Iconclass
41C2111 kitchen-interior with foodstuffs in foreground (Dutch: 'keukenstuk') Iconclass
41C222 kitchen-maid, kitchen servant Iconclass
41C653(APPLE) fruit (APPLE) Iconclass
41C68 fish; still life of fishes Iconclass
41C69 meat; still life of meat Iconclass
41C692 kinds of meat Iconclass
42F5 house personnel, servants Iconclass
42F51 maid ~ house personnel Iconclass
47B1814(+3) butcher, slaughterman (+ technical aspects ~ crafts, industries, agriculture) Iconclass
School / Style Baroque AAT
Museum van Schoone Kunsten : Catalogus ; Oude Meesters, Schilderstukken, teekeningen, plaatsneden (met geschiedkundig overzicht) / Maurice Dupuis, Georges Charles Nicolas Marie Hulin de Loo, Fritz Van Loo. - Gent : Drukkerij F. De Vos, 1938 ; Gent : Stad Gent, 1938 (p. 122)
Pieter Aertsen, précurseur de l'art rubénien / Robert Genaille. - [s.l.] : [s.n.], [s.a.] (p. 85)
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent = Museum of Fine Arts Ghent / Claudie De Guillebon, Jacques Ostier, Robert Hoozee, Monique Tahon-Vanroose. - Parijs : Association des Amis de "Musées 2000", 1989 (p. 64 (ill. 120))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : Catalogus schilderkunst ; Deel I: 14de - 18de eeuw ; Deel II: 19de - 20ste eeuw / Robert Hoozee, Johan De Smet, Bruno Fornari, Ruth Monteyne. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2007 (dl. I, p. 159 (ill.))
Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent : De collectie (tentoonstelling vanaf 21 maart 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent, 2021
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand : La Collection (exposition dès le 21 mars 2021) / Johan De Smet, Bart Ooghe, Frederica Van Dam, Lieven Van Den Abeele, Cathérine Verleysen. - Gand : Musée des Beaux-Arts de Gand, 2021
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