A Kitchen
Artist: Hendrick Sorgh (Dutch, 1609–1670)
Original Dimensions: 20 1/2" x 17 3/8"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (ca. 1643) "In this painting, Sorgh inflects a domestic scene with the art of still life. Two maids clean fish and peel vegetables in the foreground, surrounded by gleaming brass and earthenware. A closer look reveals a mischievous cat, an open birdcage, and, barely visible between the two servants, a couple caressing in the shadows. Even such seemingly innocuous elements as the earthenware pots would have carried an erotic connotation for seventeenth-century viewers." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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