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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1861,1109.145
Title: Object: La cuisinière hollandoise
Description: The Dutch Cook; a woman seated in a kitchen, directed to left, holding a chicken on a spit rod, a hare hanging from the hearth to left; in trompe l'oeil stone border; after Gabriel Metsu; finished proof, with coat of arms completely shaded, with letter. 1756 Etching and engraving
Producer name: After: Gabriel Metsu; Print made by: Jean Georges Wille; Published by: Jean Georges Wille
School/style: French; Dutch
Production date: 1756
Production place: Published in: Paris (France)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 390 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 282 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For another impression of this state see also 1842,0806.303. After the 1665 painting by Metsu in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv.no.624.
Bibliographic references: Le Blanc 1847 / Catalogue de l'oeuvre de Jean Georges Wille (67.II); Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (73) (after Metsu)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: cooking; domestic life
Associated names: Associated with: Claude Alexandre de Villeneuve, Comte de Vence
Acquisition name: Purchased from: A E Evans & Sons
Acquisition date: 1861
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1861,1109.145

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