A Woman with a Basket of Beans in a Garden

Woman with Basket of Beans in the Kitchen Garden (1651 or 1661) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch.

Woman with Basket of Beans in the Kitchen Garden
ArtistPieter de Hooch
Year1651
Dimensions69.5 cm × 59 cm (27.4 in × 23 in)
LocationKunstmuseum Basel, Basel

It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the Kunstmuseum Basel.

Description

This painting was documented by Peter C. Sutton in 1980, who felt the date of 1651 was too early and that the "5" was written suspiciously heavily leading him to date it tentatively as 1661. He also compared the painting to other paintings of gardens that De Hooch made in the early 1660s and remarked that the man's portrait on the window shutter in the foreground only appeared after the painting was cleaned at some point during the years 1913–1927.[1]

Depending on the year, the painting depicts a garden in Delft or Amsterdam, but in any case this scene's narrow garden is very similar to narrow gardens of other paintings De Hooch made:

gollark: Just rename yourself to Zoidtron and hope nobody notices!(Note: do not actually do this)
gollark: Actually doing non-stupid things?
gollark: Yes, which is bad.
gollark: Will we need a metacornfield?
gollark: ♑ 🌽 🍿 🦄

References
  1. Catalog nr. 45 A Girl with a Basket in a Garden; Pieter de Hooch:Complete Edition, by Peter C. Sutton, Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1980, ISBN 0714818283
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