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| Keywords: Thomas Wyck - Kitchen Interior - Walters 372809.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Thomas Wijck This is a fine example of the type of painting of everyday life for which the Dutch Golden Age is justly famous The elevation of the everyday life of ordinary working people to an aesthetic moment as in Wyck's sensitively executed painting of a cook is characteristic of the Haarlem school at mid century During Wyck's working years the best known Haarlem artist depicting the working classes was Jan Steen whose forte was large scenes of merrymaking while Wyck's intimate scenes typically depict moments of quiet with one or two figures in a domestic setting and bathed in the cool limpid light of Northern Europe coming through a window at the left a type of subject that other artists outside of Haarlem such as Vermeer also explored There is another painting by the artist a Kitchen Interior with Woman and Child formerly with Richard Greene London that represents the same interior The setting may be an actual one perhaps from the painter's own home between 1650 1670 Baroque oil canvas panel cm 29 26 accession number 37 2809 79242 provenanceEvent 2007 Private collection France purchase 2007 2009 Rafael Valls Ltd London date and mode of acquisition unknown provenanceEvent 2009 Walters Art Museum purchase Museum purchase with funds provided by the W Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund and Joel Goldfrank 2009 place of origin Haarlem North Holland Netherlands Walters Art Museum license 2D 17th-century way of life in painting Baroque paintings in the Walters Art Museum Thomas Wijck Paintings in the Walters Art Museum Kitchen interiors in Dutch genre paintings Bamboccianti | ||||
