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It is also sometimes referred to as A Woman Peeling Apples, with a Small Child. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote: 33. WOMAN PEELING APPLES. de G. 55. [1] In the right-hand corner of a room sits a woman, facing the spectator. She wears a black velvet jacket trimmed with fur, a red skirt, and a white apron.
38. WOMAN PEELING PEARS, WITH A CHILD AND A SERVANT-GIRL. Sm. 14. A woman sits beside a fireplace near the middle of the picture, facing the spectator. She has a basket of pears in her lap. To her left is a little child showing a pear to a servant-girl who, seen in full light, but with her back turned to the spectator, is taking something out ...
It's a realistic portrayal of woman peeling onions in the dark kitchen, fulfilling daily domestic task. [3] Yet from her pensive facial expression and hesitating gesture, the painting suggest a deeper sorrow of female's household labor, as well as an interrogation about her identity in mid-nineteenth century when the patriarchal ideology of ...
A Woman Peeling Apples: 1663 70 × 54 cm P23 The Wallace Collection: London Interior with Women beside a Linen Cupboard: 1663 72 × 77.5 cm SA 7336 Amsterdam Museum Rijksmuseum: Amsterdam A Boy Bringing Bread: 1663 74 × 60 cm P27 The Wallace Collection: London Interior with a woman reading and a child with a hoop 1662–1666 63.3 × 80.4 cm
[1] In the left-hand corner of a room sits a woman, almost directly facing the spectator. She wears an orange-coloured dress and has a basket of apples on her lap, and a dish of peeled apples on a chair beside her. On the right a servant-girl, with skirt tucked up, is bringing a child in leading-strings. The child stretches its hands towards an ...
Traces of a picture painted over by the artist himself are faintly visible on the wall above the woman's head. The small window of the pantry and a cask are seen through an open door on the left. Through an open door on the right is a sitting-room; in this room a cushioned chair, with a portrait on the wall above it, stands by the open window.
72. THE BEDROOM. To the right a young woman is making a bed. She has taken the clothes from a bed enclosed in a wooden partition, and has laid them over a chair. She stands in profile to the left, and smiles at her little girl, who stands in the open doorway to the left with an apple in her left hand.
The lady, sitting almost with her back to the spectator, is squeezing a lemon into a glass of wine. The gentleman, with his pipe in his right hand, looks on with interest. Behind the couple an older woman comes forward with a glass of beer. At the corner of the house to the right a servant-girl, standing on a tub, is scouring a brass pot.