# Two Old Women and a Servant [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SUSTERMANS, Justus]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 100 x 148 cm ## Commentary Two Old Women and a Servant c. 1634 Oil on canvas, 100 x 148 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence The three figures in this painting are people who really existed, as proved by the records in the Medici archives. In this work, Suttermans, a famed portrait artist, who had successfully immortalised and celebrated the most important figures in the Medici family, documents with great sagacity the small domestic world that surrounded and accompanied court life. In this case, the two old women with wrinkled faces and a lively, wry expressions are Domenica delle Cascine, a duck and chicken seller, and a peasant woman, Francesca, or "Cecca" from Pratolino. Both are frequently mentioned in the Medici's accounting documents. Domenica, in particular, is recorded as being paid not only for her role as stewardess, but also as entertainer, often engaged to amuse the lord and his family with jokes and pleasantries and to "play the Fool”. Pietro the Moor, on the right was most likely one of the many servants at the house. ## Related artworks - [Cosimo III de' Medici]() - [Family of Cosimo II de' Medici]() - [Portrait of Ferdinando II de' Medici Dressed in Oriental Costume]() - [Portrait of Ferdinando II de' Medici]() - [Portrait of Ferdinando II de' Medici]() - [Portrait of Galileo Galilei]() - [Portrait of Margherita de' Medici]() - [Portrait of Mattias de' Medici]() - [Portrait of Prince Valdemar Christian of Denmark]() - [Portrait of Vincenzo II Gonzaga]() - [Portrait of Vittoria della Rovere and Cosimo III as a Child]() - [Portrait of Vittoria della Rovere]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()