# The Scullery Maid [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CRESPI, Giuseppe Maria]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 52 x 43 cm ## Commentary The Scullery Maid c. 1725 Oil on canvas, 52 x 43 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Giuseppe Maria Crespi's genre painting often touched on intimate domestic moments. This painting is from his Florentine period. Thanks to Duke Ferdinand de' Medici's patronage he had been able to make direct contact with Magnasco and to get to know Flemish painting. But he went beyond these influences in the delicate way he defined the light which reveals the objects in the kitchen to the viewer one by one. Since the modern rediscovery of Giuseppe Maria Crespi, this unpretentious interior where nothing is happening except the washing of dishes, has been considered one of Crespi's best, an Italian equivalent to the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/c/chardin/2/03peeli.html'\)" href="/html/c/chardin/2/03peeli.html">domestic scenes of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin.</a> ## Related artworks - [Apotheosis of Hercules and the Four Seasons \(detail\)]() - [Apotheosis of Hercules and the Four Seasons]() - [Assembly of the Gods and the Parcae]() - [Assembly of the Gods \(detail\)]() - [Baptism]() - [Bookshelves]() - [Cardinal Prospero Lambertini]() - [Communion]() - [Confession]() - [Confirmation]() - [Count Fulvio Grati]() - [Death of St Joseph]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()