A maid standing by a table cleaning fish, pots, pans and cabbages on a barrel nearby, in a farmyard

The present lot is to be dated to the 1640's and to be compared with the View of a stable in Mueseum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam (N. Schadee, ed.,Rotterdamse Meesters uit de Gouden Eeuw, 1994, p.228, n051, ill.). As pointed out by R. James, op. cit., p.228, these interiors reveal the influence of Pieter de Bloot and Cornelis and Herman Saftleven.