Dutch School, XVIII Century

Dutch School, following models of David Teniers; 18th century.
"Kitchen interior".
Oil on canvas. Relined.
It presents faults and restorations in the pictorial surface.
It has slight damage to the frame.
Measurements: 42 x 42 cm; 57 x 57 cm (frame).
In this work the author captures a scene of interior, in which a woman seated in the right zone of the scene is immersed in her tasks, while in the last plane another lady can be seen with her back to the spectator. The painting is part of the aesthetic current that represents the customs, one of the genres that enjoyed greater development in the Dutch Baroque school. Thus, the space is clearly defined and meticulously described, and the figures are represented in large size. Both the two people, as well as the cow that is arranged in the left zone of the composition. Although competing with them in prominence is the group of objects that are distributed throughout the surface, posed as a real independent still life.
Undoubtedly, it was in the painting of the Dutch school where the consequences of the political emancipation of the region, as well as the economic prosperity of the liberal bourgeoisie, were most openly manifested. The combination of the discovery of nature, objective observation, the study of the concrete, the appreciation of the everyday, the taste for the real and material, the sensitivity to the seemingly insignificant, made the Dutch artist commune with the reality of everyday life, without seeking any ideal alien to that same reality.