A Housewife in an inner Courtyard Cleaning Fish 1639 - 1649

Hendrik Potuyl's "A Housewife in an Inner Courtyard Cleaning Fish," painted between 1639 and 1649, depicts a Dutch housewife in a realistic and intimate domestic scene. The woman, dressed in simple clothing, is cleaning a fish on a table in front of a modest, rustic home. The painting captures the details of everyday life, highlighting the kitchen tools, a cat, and the vegetables scattered on the ground. This genre painting, known as a "kitchen piece," was popular in the Netherlands during the Golden Age and aimed to portray ordinary domestic life in a realistic manner.