Kitchen Interior with a Piglet
Artist: Giuseppe Recco (Italian, 1634 - 1695)
Date: about 1660
Dimensions:
29 × 40 1/4 in. (73.7 × 102.2 cm)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Place of Origin: Neapolitan
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number: 2017.37
DescriptionDepicts a recently-slaughtered piglet suspended by its hind feet over a table on which rest a provolone cheese, a sausage, a plucked chicken, a bottle of olive oil, a large meat pie, and two live, young pigeons. A window shows a view of a cloudy sky.
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