The Little Housekeeper

1857

24 cm 32.7 cm

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A young village girl bends over a stove to peer into a large marmite, the contents of which she stirs with a strainer. She wears a white cap and apron, a casaque, and a petticoat, wool stockings and sabots. At her feet is an earthenware bowl, some kindling and firewood. In the...

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French and English Exhibition of Pictures, National Academy of Design, New York, October 29, 1859; William T. Walters, Baltimore, October 29, 1859, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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