Caption
Milkmaid after the painting of G. Dou in the Cabinet of Mr. Poullain, mid-17th century, Engraving, Plate: 6 5/16 x 4 15/16 in. (16 x 12. 5 cm), Prints, After Gerrit Dou (Dutch, Leiden 1613–1675 Leiden), Charles François Adrien Macret (French, Abbeville 1751–1789 Paris), This modest print records Dou's painting shortly after 1780, when it was sold from the Poulain collection in Paris. As in similar scenes invented by Dou during the 1640s and 1650s, the pretty kitchen maid is surrounded by motifs that had for decades stood for male and female private parts