For the first time artists were able to support themselves by specializing in a category such as portraiture, still life or various kinds, genre or landscape. ... In the intriguing Interior: Woman plucking a Duck, Maes uses the simple colour scheme of black, white and red, set off with deep shadows, that dominates the Eavesdropper series. The young woman bending over her work is poised between two contagious spaces showing oblique views, one to the outdoors and the other into a further room, where we can just discern a pitcher on a table. ... There are two dead birds, facing in opposite direct...

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