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
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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 |
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| 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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