A grand castle kitchen, the element fire, Vermeer’s milkmaid, a witch’s kitchen for Faust, a rotund cardinal tasting the sauce, and in a humble apartment in London.
van Cleve
Paintings of open fires and stoves from 1565 to 1884 show how we lived through the winter before central heating.
An offshoot of still life paintings of food, it was never very popular, and most of these are decidedly odd. From Jan Brueghel the elder to
The Eclectic Light Company 