Drie personen voor een schoorsteen, twee hunner zitten en de andere staat
Cornelis Pietersz. Bega
1642 - 1664
Medium
etching
Dimensions
77; 59
About this artwork
height 77 mm x width 59 mm
Art Historical Context
Cornelis Pietersz Bega's *Drie personen voor een schsteen, twee hunner en de andere staat*Three Persons in Front of a Chimney Two of Them Sitting and the Other Standing) captures an intimate domestic moment from the Dutch Golden Age. Created as an etching between 164 and 1664, this small print (77 mm high by 59 mm wide) three figures gathered by a fireplace—two seated and one standing—evoking the everyday life of ordinary folk in 17th-century Netherlands. Bega, a Haarlem-based artist (c. 1620–1664), specialized in genre scenes like this, blending realism with subtle humor to portray peasants a...