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In this work an old lady sits on a chair eating from a bowl beneath a narrow window in a small room. She wears a white cap and apron and around her are the articles of domestic life. Much of nineteenth-century genre painting took its inspiration from seventeenth-century Dutch paintings of tavern scenes and simple domestic interiors. In France these small, intimate paintings became fashionable decorative pieces which were extremely popular.
Title
Interior with an Old Woman Eating Soup
Date
1853
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 35.6 x W 27 cm
Accession number
B.M.321
Acquisition method
bequeathed by the Founders, 1885
Work type
Painting
