Caesar Boëtius van Everdingen
Today we start our new monthly partnership with the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Hope you will love it! :)
The painting we present today was created by Cesar Pietersz, or Caesar Boëtius van Everdingen, a Dutch Golden Age portrait and history painter who was the older brother of artists Allaert van Everdingen and Jan van Everdingen. The girl with her exotic, broad-brimmed sun hat and suggestively exposed shoulder offers the viewer her basket with fruit: the erotic message is unmistakable. The painting was originally intended to hang high up on the wall, above a door or mantelpiece. This explains why the girl looks down at us.
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