Man and Woman at the Breakfast Table
Gabriël Metsu
1650 - 1660
On the table is a plate with a ham, cheese, and bread. For the average family, this was a typical breakfast, sometimes supplemented by fish. The woman is about to pour some beer into her flute glass. In those days, people hardly drank any water, however beer was quite popular and drunk all day long. Women dominated the trades of breadmaking and beer brewing.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · Image: Rijksmuseum, Public domain · Text: Rijksmuseum, CC0