Pieter Janssens Elinga
In a Dutch interior, a maid, seen from the back, sweeps the floor. The shutters are closed. The verticals and horizontals of the beams, windows, doors, curtains, floor tiles, and frames hanging on the wall form a very strict geometric pattern. The maid's face can be seen in the mirror hanging on the wall. To the right, a door opens to another room with a fireplace.
Pieter Janssens Elinga was a Dutch Golden Age painter, mainly of domestic interior scenes with a strong emphasis on the rectangular geometrical elements of windows, floor-tiling paintings, and other elements, and a few genre figures. He also painted still lifes. Although now famous for his depictions of bourgeois interiors treated as still lifes, Janssens remains relatively unknown, and his works are rare.
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P.S. Masters of Dutch Golden Age loved to depict people in interiors. These paintings often have something deeply engaging about them ... like these of works of a mysterious Jacobus Vrel or the one and only Johannes Vermeer!