The Milk Girl

Nicolas Maes (Dordrecht 1634 – Amsterdam 1693). Oil painting on canvas, The Milk Girl by Nicolas Maes (Dordrecht 1634 – Amsterdam 1693), signed: N.Maes. A perspective view of a street in a Dutch town, with a gateway at the far end, and a house at the rihht in the foreground, at the door of which a maid servant pays a milk girl who wers an orange shirt and large straw hat; two large brass cans and a pot of milk have been put down on the doorstep; tow other milk girls approach along the street at the left. A version at Apsley House shows the same street but with a different composition of figures. Ascott Estate, Buckinghamshire