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| Keywords: Jean August Hendrik Leys - Dutch Interior - Walters 37144.jpg A servant girl has been found asleep by an older couple Beside her on a table covered with a checked cloth is an unplucked dead goose and a large stoneware pitcher; at her feet waits a hungry cat beside a large copper basin The artist has enriched the kitchen setting with such details as the broken mirror and the ceramic vase suspended from wall pegs a large wooden-slatted bird-cage and a wainscot of Delft tiles This painting illustrates the domestic genre practiced by Leys' master F de Braekeleer and by Leys himself early in his career Paul Mantz cited a Flemish kitchen scene by Leys dated 1841 M Henri Leys in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts 20 1866 249 Another Interieur flamand dated 1836 was sold at the John Wilson Sale Paris March 14-16 1881 no 168 ca 1840 oil on wood mahogany panel cm 37 5 29 accession number 37 144 39975 William T Walters Baltimore between 1878 and 1884 mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by William T Walters between 1878 and 1884 Signature Lower left HLeyes; Number On paper sticker 566; Number In pencil 560; Number In pencil 5155; Number In black stencil 429V; Number Scratched 332 Salute to Belgium place of origin Belgium Walters Art Museum license 2D Salute to Belgium Henri Leys Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
