Dienstmeisje giet melk in een pan
Medium
brush
Dimensions
162; 202
About this artwork
Dienstmeisje in het wit giet melk uit een kan in een pan.
Art Historical Context
In the intimate brush drawing *Dienstmeisje giet melk in een pan (Maid Pouring Milk into a Pan created by French artist Jean-Baptiste Mallet 1799, a servant girl dressed in crisp white pours fresh milk from a jug into pan. Measuring just 202 × 162 mm, this delicate work captures a quiet moment of everyday domesticity, rendered with Mallet's signature precision in watercolor or gouache-like brushwork. Mallet, a master of small-scale genre scenes, often depicted women in contemporary life, blending neoclassical clarity with emerging romantic interest in the ordinary. Painted during France's Con...