# Girl with a Distaff [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CERUTI, Giacomo]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 48 x 39 cm ## Commentary Girl with a Distaff c. 1740 Oil on canvas, 48 x 39 cm Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest The young peasant girl rests her head in her palm, in a pose taken from depictions of 'Melancholia,' and the resignation reflected in her face may conjure up a similar mood. The distaff, so prominent in the painting, is a traditional symbol of women's work as well as an attribute of the Fate Clotho.. It was also part of the iconography used in depictions of courtesans and brothels in Venetian art. ## Related artworks - [Beggar Resting]() - [Boy with a Basket of Fish]() - [Boy with a Basket]() - [Boy with a Basket]() - [Encounter in the Wood]() - [Evening at the Piazza]() - [Little Beggar Girl and Woman Spinning]() - [Portrait of a Capuchin Friar]() - [Portrait of a Country Woman]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Smoking Man in Oriental Habit]() - [Portrait of a Woman]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()