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Peasant Woman with a Cat Oil on panel on canvas, 24 x 34.8 cm, by David Ryckaert III, 1640s The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg |
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Commonly interpreted as an
allegory of taste, Ryckaert presents a humorous scene of an old
woman feeding porridge by spoon to a cat wrapped in a blanket. The
exaggerated tenderness of the gesture gives the scene a distinctly
satirical character. |
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