Pancake Woman
1768
An elderly woman in a bonnet sits on a wooden chair, intently focused on cooking a pancake in a long-handled pan. The sketchy background suggests a rustic interior with a window and hanging cloth. The inscription 'G. Metsu' in the corner reveals this is a tribute to Dutch Golden Age master Gabriel Metsu, reproduced by Cornelis Ploos van Amstel. Ploos van Amstel was so obsessed with preserving old master drawings that he invented a secret color printing technique to replicate them perfectly, spending decades on this massive project.
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