Today’s Masterpiece Story is about this lovely genre painting by Nicolaes Maes (1634-1693), a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in small-scale domestic scenes and portraits.

Every time I look at 17th-century Dutch paintings, I ask myself the same question: why do they always show cows? You will probably think this is a shallow and useless question, but let me show you ...

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Provenance, or the documented ownership history of your artwork.

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