Willem Van Odekercken (circa 1610 - 1677), Servant Scouring A Brass Bucket

Willem van Odekercken
Dutch painter
The Hague or Nijmegen circa 1610 – 1677 Delft
A servant girl, three-quarter length, scouring a brass bucket
Oil on panel : 104,7 X 78,1 cm
Unsigned
Frame: 123,0 X 94,9 cm (period King Louis XIV Rhone Valley carved and gilt wood frame)  
Provenance : Christie’s London, 17/12/99, lot 161

Van Odekercken was trained at The Hague, but spent the major part of his career in Delft. His paintings are rare. He specialised in these grand depictions of kitchen maids.  

The motif of our painting is Odekercken’s favourite subject: a kitchen maid who is scouring a copper vessel. This theme gave him the occasion to combine a portrait-like genre scene with the representation of the reverberating light on copper and pewter objects. Kitchen maids were a popular theme in Dutch and Flemish painting: just think of Pieter Aertsen, Joachim Beuckelaer, Joachim Wtewael or Johannes Vermeer.

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