Painting, Nicolaas Rijnenburg, c. 1756

painting, Nicolaas Rijnenburg, c. 1756, Signature front, bottom right, on the table edge: N. Rijnenburg, panel, oil paint, painted, Carrier: 35.3 × 27.7 × 1cm 353 × 277 × 10mm, With frame: 49.6 × 42.6 × 3.5cm 496 × 426 × 35mm, cat, woman, birdcage, genre, man, interior, Painting depicting a merchant in a shop. In a simple room with an open door on the left, through which one looks into the street, a young woman sits, visible to her knees and turned to the left. She holds three dabs in the right hand and points and looks at a young man who has entered on the left, holding a coin to her and pointing at the dabs with the right hand. The woman is wearing a white cap, a brown jacket, a floral skirt and a blue front apron. The man is wearing a black hat, a blue skirt and a brown front apron. To the right is a table with a basket of nuts, a basket of pears, a scale, weights, dried fish and a rag. A basket of carrots under the table. On the left a cat that jumps up to the woman's knees and a bench with a basket of dabs. A blue bird cage hangs from the ceiling. Shelves with edibles against the back wall and on the right a niche with pull pot and two cups. Signed on the table edge. The painting is in a black-painted wooden frame with a gilded inner edge, 1938. (photo by: Sepia Times/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images)