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Genre Scenes and StudiesQuestionable
Cook at a Window
- Catalog
- WD-Q04
- Artist
- Willem Drost
- Year
- c. 1655
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unknown
- Location
- Unknown
Description
A genre scene depicting a cook framed by a window, a common motif in Dutch Golden Age painting. The work is known only through documentation.
Analysis
Listed in pubhist.com among Drost's works, this painting's current whereabouts are unknown. The subject of a cook or kitchen maid at a window was popularized by artists like Gerard Dou and Pieter de Hooch, and Drost's treatment of the theme would reflect his engagement with contemporary genre painting.