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| Keywords: Dirck de Vries - Kitchen Interior - Walters 372651.jpg De Vries was one of many Netherlandish artists who left his war-torn homeland to come to Venice where he painted Netherlandish subjects in a Venetian style As in the Netherlandish tradition the kitchen of this wealthy home is full of everyday details such as meat hung to dry The cook reaches for the roosters offered by the tradesman In Dutch plays on the word for bird can refer to sexual intercourse In the lusty manner of Netherlandish paintings and popular prints of market folk the man is propositioning the cook in front of her mistress who does not understand peasant body language The lady's dress and platform shoes identify her and the setting as Venetian and De Vries has adopted the broad brush strokes of his Venetian colleagues ca 1600 Oil on canvas cm 97 8 134 7 accession number 37 2651 9960 Sale Christie's New York January 11 1991 lot 17 Walters Art Museum 1991 by purchase Museum purchase 1991 Artful Dining The Exhibition The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1994 place of origin Venice Italy Walters Art Museum license 2D Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Dirck de Vries Kitchen interiors in Dutch genre paintings 1600 paintings in the United Kingdom Paintings of baskets Pumpkins in paintings Crabs in art Copper in art 17th-century oil on canvas paintings in the United Kingdom Chopines | ||||
