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A Dutch Girl at Breakfast
Also titled Hollands meisje aan het ontbijt
c. 1756
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 46.8 cm x width 39 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchase made possible by the BankGiro Lottery, the Rembrandt Association through its ‘Nationaal Fonds Kunstbezit’, Mondriaan Fund, VSBfonds, H.B. van der Ven, The Hague, Fonds De Haseth-Möller/Rijksmuseum Fonds, LOBA Fonds/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
A young woman, the painter’s wife, drinks coffee, a popular beverage in the 18th century. In 1775, the magazine De Vaderlander called (in vain) for a coffee boycott: ‘Unfortunate calloused fists had to work the ground for the coffee and sugar that you now hold in your delicate little hands. They were murdered to meet your needs.’
