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Description: | In this painting a young woman in the foreground holds one of the birds that she is selling. The subject allowed Toorenvliet to demonstrate his ability to render various textures, from the skin of the young girl to the plumage of the birds. The theme of the poulterer, or bird-seller, was popular in the seventeenth century and Frans van Mieris (1635-1681) and Gerrit Dou (1613-1675) also painted a number of images on the theme. To the seventeenth-century Dutch audience the frequently depicted subject also had sexual connotations because of double-meanings in colloquial Dutch. | Subjects: | figure; animal (bird); everyday life (poulterer) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Toorenvliet, Jacob (Dutch painter, ca.1635-1719) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8340... | Go to resource |
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