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January 16th, 2013 at 12:18 pm
She’s not wearing her onion goggles!
January 16th, 2013 at 12:19 pm
What? She’s not crying?
January 16th, 2013 at 3:43 pm
The little boy looks like he is going to eat an onion?
January 16th, 2013 at 4:53 pm
The chicken doesn’t belong?
January 16th, 2013 at 6:55 pm
the lighting seems off
January 16th, 2013 at 8:40 pm
Seems to me like there ought to be a huge pile of onion skins somewhere if she’s cut up that many onions. Did they have special onion choppers back then?
January 16th, 2013 at 11:11 pm
The girl appears very somber, but I would as well if my task was to chop so many onions. However, it is most queer that the stein or pitcher is overturned in the forefront of the picture.
January 17th, 2013 at 9:23 am
It could be that she is giving “the look” at the painter which translates “Hey, can you put the paintbrush down and help me?”
January 18th, 2013 at 3:20 pm
Well! That was an interesting search & discovery! This is a very innocent looking painting–a slice of life, if you will–but it had strong sexual meaning to the people of the time in which it was painted. As an aside, The green in the painting is supposed to be blue, which I find much more attractive. There are color-corrected photos on the web.
Other than the fact that the painting appears innocent to modern eyes but isn’t, what I find wrong with the painting is that anyone could stand over that much chopped onion & not be in tears!
January 19th, 2013 at 9:00 am
The girl doesn’t look like she is normal kitchen help. She doesn’t have on work clothes, she doesn’t look like she’s in the kitchen.
January 21st, 2013 at 11:50 am
That’s what I was thinking too!
January 21st, 2013 at 11:51 am
Yes, I just found out about the meaning behind the painting. Never knew that before last week.