Woman Cooking

Woman Cooking or The Cook (Italian - La cuoca) is the modern title given to a circa 1625 oil on canvas genre painting by Bernardo Strozzi, produced in Genoa and still held in the Palazzo Rosso in the city, part of the Strada Nuova Museums.

A second autograph version with various differences was in the painter's studio at his death and is now at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh.

Francesco I Brignole-Sale del 1683, with the title "Animals and figure of a standing woman cooking by Prete Cappuccino".

[2] At the end of the 18th century, it was recorded as hanging in the Palazzo Rosso – that palace and all the artworks it contained were donated to the city of Genoa by Duchessa di Galliera Maria Brignole-Sale De Ferrari in 1874.

[3] The subject derives from the Flemish kitchen-set works of Pieter Aertsen and Joachim Beuckelaer, already known in Genoa at that time.