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Lean Kitchen
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Lean Kitchen

Pieter van der Heyden · 1563 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Kitchen interior with thin people eating mussels at a table. A man stirs a pot on the fire, and in the front, a woman gives a child a drink from a drinking horn. Above, a fat man tries to escape the thin kitchen, while two thin people try to pull him back in. Below the image, a two-line verse in French and in Dutch. Subject categories within the Atlas Customs and Manners: Customs and Manners in a Narrower Sense, The Dwelling, Interior Houses, Kitchens.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineMagere keuken. 1563. Pieter van der Heyden. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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