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Dutch Interior
(18th and 19th Centuries )
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.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
William T. Walters, Baltimore, between 1878 and 1884 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 1980 | Salute to Belgium. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 4/29/1980 | Treatment | surface cleaned; coated; inpainted |
| 6/18/2008 | Treatment | surface cleaned; inpainted; coated; re-framed |
Geographies
Belgium (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 14 3/4 × W: 11 3/8 × D: 1/2 in. (37.47 × 28.89 × 1.27 cm); Framed H: 26 1/2 × W: 23 1/8 × D: 3 3/8 in. (67.31 × 58.74 × 8.57 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. Walters, between 1878 and 1884
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.144