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In the National Gallery version she sits, a model of demure virtue, alone with her faithful greyhound. The setting is a much more modest outhouse. A pile of gleaming pots and pans forms the still life, and a butter churn sits in the background gloom. Close examination of the painting style suggests that it may be by a follower of Teniers, possibly his brother Juliaen.
Several of the pans and some of the furniture, including the butter churn, reappear in another painting in the National Gallery’s collection, Teniers’s An Old Peasant caresses a Kitchen Maid in a Stable.
Title
An Old Woman peeling Pears
Date
after 1640s
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 48.6 x W 66.5 cm
Accession number
NG805
Acquisition method
Bought, 1870
Work type
Painting
