The milkmaid by johannes vermeer

is in fact a "kitchen piece", a traditional type of Netherlandish art which combines both genre and still life painting. Pioneered a century before by the Antwerp painter Pieter Aertsen (1509-75) and his nephew and pupil Joachim Bueckelaer (1535

Milkmaid history

Johannes vermeer wife cause of death

Girl with a pearl earring