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"The Sweeper," Pieter Janssens Elinga, 1670.
Elinga (1623-1682?) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, noted mostly for his domestic interiors, often with strong geometric patterns, as we see here on the floor, and the arrangement of rectangles in the tall room.
Like yesterday's artist, Hoogstraten, Elinga was an experimenter with small dioramas that were experiments in perspective.
Few details of his life are available; no exact date of death is known; he was alive in 1657 when he paid a poll tax, and his wife signed an official document stating she was a widow in 1682, so it was sometime between those two dates.
There's leaves on the trees outside the tall windows here....maybe she's doing her spring cleaning?
From the Petit Palais, Paris.
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