Artist: Gabriel Metsu
ημερομηνία: 1660
μέγεθος: 28 x 23 cm
μουσείο: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
Τεχνική: Wood
A housewife holds an apple, which in this context more likely refers to the New Eve (the Virgin Mary) than the old one. The birdcage and hearth imply happy domesticity, while the grapevine alludes to the woman as "a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house" (Psalm 128). The original buyer of such a painting, if he had opinions about art as well as women, would probably have described it as a nisstuck, meaning "niche-piece" or "window-niche," an illusionistic format popularized by Gerrit Dou.
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