Woman Drying Her Nets

Interior with a woman sitting by a fireplace. With her right arm she leans on a table, her left leg rests on the fender. With her left hand she holds a net between her legs. Behind her a man with amorous intentions. She, however, rejects him because she still has to recover from the night. Under the table a cat with a fish in its mouth. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, one of the meanings of 'fishing' was making love. The net is a symbol for the vagina.