Lady and Her Cook

Lady and Her Cook is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, created c. 1660.

[1] In the middle of the little fore-court, paved with blue and white tiles, of a house on the right, sits an elderly lady, facing half-right.

She wears a black jacket, a red skirt, and a white apron; she has .a green cushion on her lap and a letter in her hand, with a basket of needlework beside her.

A servant-girl, dressed in a white bodice and a violet skirt tucked up over a blue petticoat, has come out of the house-door on the right and shows her some fish in a brass pail.

Mont de Piété, at Paris, 1808 (about 1100 francs, La Fontaine).