Χέρριτ Ντάου: Διαφορά μεταξύ των αναθεωρήσεων

[[File:Gerard Dou - Maid at the Window - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|''ΚοπέλαΥπηρέτρια στο παράθυρο'', περ. 1660]]

<!-- ''The Kitchen Maid with a Boy in a Window'' features a maidservant, fish and a little boy holding a hare, cramped together with a bunch of vegetables, a dead bird and copperware. Sluijter acknowledges that a contemporary viewer would have certainly approved of this scene as representing an approximation of life since the rendering of all the material is very realistic. On the overall series of maidservant-scenes, Sluijter remarks that the image of a maidservant was generally associated with a sexual undertone. According to de Jongh, this motif has erotic references. In his article on [[Erotica]] in 17th-century genre pieces, de Jongh argues that dead hunted birds and animals most likely all refer to the notion of eroticism and availability of the woman depicted because birding and hunting were synonyms for sexual encounters. All images of maidservants accompanied by dead birds or animals refer to hunting and ''vogelen'' (birding), which in Dutch means to copulate. The maidservants are thereby explicitly erotic. Certainly, a cock as a bird refers to a cock as the male sex organ and this can been seen hanging from the wall in ''Kitchen Maid with a Boy in a Window''. [de Jongh, 1968–1969]{{Full citation needed|date=November 2014}} De Jongh´s erotic interpretations can be disputed regarding the paintings by Gerard Dou because he depicts his dead chicks and furry hares not only with seductive maidservants but also as props in motifs with old servants, or in domestic household scenes, such as the ''Young Mother''.