3-092-603 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

A Woman with a Basket of Beans in a Garden, 1651. A woman stands on a patch of lawn interspersed with weeds. In her hands she holds a basket of beans, probably picked from the bush behind her. Her simple clothing indicates her position as a servant, but the pearl earrrings she is wearing could also suggest her position as mistress of the house. There is also a nobly dressed gentleman in the background