Kitchen Interior with Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, by Cornelis Engelszen (1575-1642/3)

Cornelis Engelszen (1574/5 -1650) Kitchen Interior with Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, signed bottom left: CE f (?indistinctly dated). Three figures round a kitchen table, piled with vegetables, in the foreground. A man at the left holding a basket of eggs and a flagon. Behind the table a servant girl about to carve a chicken and at her shoulder a young man with a brace of partridges. In the background in another room Christ is seated with Mary and Martha. Luke (10;38-42), in which Martha, the archetype of the busy cook, chides her sister Mary Magdalen for sitting in apparent idleness listening to Christ.