Date : 1655
Dimensions : 53 cm x 70 cm
Material : Peinture à l'huile sur chêne
Acquisition : Bequeathed by Richard Simmons (1847)
| The Idle Servant
Item 8 on 16
Flemish and Northern Painting
Painting (Scène intérieure)
Area related
Neitherlands
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The maid's pose with her head resting in one hand is traditional for depictions of the deadly sin of Acedia (idleness). While the scene could be interpreted as a moralizing lesson, the housewife, who is pointing at her maid, in fact seems amused rather than upset by her fallibility.
Signed and dated: n. maes. 1655. [mae in monogram]
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