The Girl in the Window:
Rembrandt's Kitchenmaid and its Followers in
Seventeenth-Century European Art
GA?rel Cavalli-BjA?rkman,
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Ever since the Rembandt
exhibition in Stockholm in 1992, where some of the
artist's and his pupils' paintings on the subject
of the 'Kitchenmaid' were assembled (Stockholm, Dulwich,
Washington), I have collected material on derivatives
on this theme in Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, English
and French art, mostly of the seventeenth but also
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The theme can
be analyzed from different perspectives: The Importance
of Rembrandt as an artistic example; The Iconography
of the subject; Questions concerning reality versus
illusion; Sources in antiquity; and others.
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