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Source Description
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.
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Document identity
localId
39975
label
Dutch Interior
core
obj
dtoType
drawing
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
39975
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
Dutch Interior
description
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.
provenance
William T. Walters, Baltimore, between 1878 and 1884 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 1840
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
panel paintings
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
37.5
height
28.9
depth
1.3
dimensionsRaw
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)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Signature] Lower left: HLeys; [Number] On paper sticker: 566; [Number] In pencil: 560; [Number] In pencil: 5155; [Number] In black stencil: 429V; [Number] Scratched: 332
med
oil on wood (mahogany) panel
creator_ids
8331
collection_ids
EAN
exhibition_ids
2674
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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