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Woman Churning Butter
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Woman Churning Butter

Claude Augustin Duflos · 1720 - 1786 · etching; engraving; paper

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

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Interior of a farmhouse with a family of two children. The woman is churning butter, the man offers her an egg. The children are stealing the butter. In the caption, two four-line verses. Part of a series of three genre scenes by Benard, engraved by Delfos. Subject headings within the Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Folk life; Domestic life; the eighteenth century.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printbuttercommunal roomseggs, egg-disheschurning
Credit lineVrouw die boter karnt. 1720 - 1786. Claude Augustin Duflos. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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