This anonymous 17th-century work depicts a domestic interior in which the family’s livelihood depends on the sale of various goods, in this case game and fruit. Traditionally, in craft trades, the woman’s role, in addition to bringing up children if there were any, looking after the house, obtaining food and cleaning the house, consisted of actively participating in different productive tasks, one of them being the sale of goods.
Collection: Images
Project: 4. Family, daily life and social inequality in Europe., 8. Women and the change for gender equality in Europe.
Chronology: XVII
Scope: Secondary Education, Baccalaureate, University
Resource type: Image
Format: Oil on canvas (159 x 203 cm)
Source: Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Language: Spanish
Date: 17th century
Owner: Álvaro Romero González (Modernalia)
Identifier: P003674
Copyright: Museo del Prado (Madrid)
Abstract: Anonymous 17th-century domestic interior, with a couple as protagonists, guarding their merchandise for future sale
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