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The Milk Seller

Cornelis Dusart (1660–1704)

The Barber Institute of Fine Arts

The Milk Seller

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Dusart’s earliest dated work was produced in the year he completed his studies with Adriaen van Ostade (1610–1685). It is based on a drawing by his teacher which typically shows a peasant scene. A travelling milk seller, with a yoke across her back, fills a bowl from her tub. She is watched by three generations of a family, including a girl with her doll and a boy with a hoop. Dusart, however, pays equal attention to the cottage’s picturesque quality with its variously textured walls and wooden accretions.

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Title

The Milk Seller

Date

1679

Medium

oil on wood

Measurements

H 38.8 x W 29.5 cm

Accession number

49.8

Acquisition method

purchased, 1949

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

Signed and dated: K. Dusart 1679

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University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands B15 2TS England

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Cornelis Dusart

1660–1704

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