A Woman Scaling Fish
by BREKELENKAM, Quiringh van, Oil on panel, 43 x 34 cm
From the late 1640s Brekelenkam painted domestic subjects with middle-class figures preparing food, scrubbing pots, doing needlework, or ministering to children.
The present panel represents an interior with a woman scaling fish together with a child in a high chair near a fireplace, a bed in the background.