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The Well-stocked Kitchen
Also titled De welvoorziene keuken
Joachim Bueckelaer (Antwerp, 1530–ca.)
1566
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 171 cm x width 250 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
The central theme of this painting is not the profuse display of vegetables, fruit, meat, poultry and pots and pans on offer by these kitchen maids. Instead it is Christ’s visit to Mary and Martha, which is depicted inconspicuously in the background. The contrast between the foreground and the background conceals the message of the painting: do not give in to earthly temptations.
