Van Brekelenkam, a Dutch painter who focused his artistic career in Leiden, depicted various working interiors such as this 17th-century spinner. His paintings depict the domestic spaces of these humble people of 17th-century Holland, showing their arrangements, tastes, furnishings and the various costumes they might wear in their daily lives.
Collection: Images
Project: 3. Rural world and urban world in the formation of the European identity., 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
Link: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435771
Resource type: Image
Format: Oil on panel (48,3 x 64,1 cm)
Source: The Metropolitam Museum of Art (Nueva York)
Language: English
Date: 1653
Owner: Álvaro Romero González (Modernalia)
Identifier: 71110
Copyright: The Metropolitam Museum of Art (Nueva York)
Abstract: Domestic interior with a spinner, doing her work, accompanied by a man
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