The Idle Servant

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The Idle Servant: Nicolaes Maas

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Nicolaes Maas Oil Painting - The Idle Servant

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Work Overview: The Idle Servant (Interior with a Sleeping Maid and her Mistress)
Nicolaes Maes
Date made 1655
Medium and support Oil on oak
Dimensions 70 x 53.3 cm

The painting is apparently the earliest interior of its kind with a view into an adjacent room. This device was further developed in Delft in the work of de Hooch in the later 1650s and by Vermeer. Both Maes and de Hooch may have been influenced by Carel Fabritius, another pupil of Rembrandt, who moved to Delft in about 1650.

The kitchen scene in Maes's painting is complemented by the room beyond, where figures sit at table. The strong lighting in the foreground shows the artist's continuing debt to Rembrandt. It highlights the figures of the maid and the mistress, the standing figure gesturing towards the idle servant with an array of dishes at her feet and a cat stealing food on the ledge beside her.

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