Italian school; 17th century."Interior of a kitchen".Oil on canvas. Re-coloured.It presents restorations.Measurements: 46,5 x 41 cm.Oil on canvas in which we can appreciate an interior with a seated woman and a little boy crouched next to a brazier. The two protagonists, despite sharing the same scene, do not interact with each other, conveying a sense of solitude and melancholy to the viewer. In this work the artist combines still life and genre painting, two of the genres that enjoyed great development in the Baroque school. Thus, the space is clearly defined and minutely described, and the figures are depicted at a large size, although the group of objects in the central area of the painting compete with them for prominence, posed as a true independent still life.The work is aesthetically close to the stylistic precepts of Giacomo Ceruti (Milan, 1698-1767). Active in the north of the Italian peninsula (Lombardy, Brescia and Venice), where he produced a varied and uneven oeuvre, little is known of his early years. From 1726 to 1728 he worked on the fresco decoration of the Palazzo Broletto, the governor's residence, and the series of paintings of beggars commissioned by the Avogrado family that earned him the nickname of Pitocchetto (the little beggar) dates from the same period. Among his most important commissions was the series of works executed in 1736 for the Venetian palace by Marshal Matthias von Schulenburg, an important German collector, to which the Thyssen painting belongs. Also in 1736 he worked on the fresco decoration of the Palazzo Grassi in Venice. From 1737 to 1742 Ceruti lived in Padua where he is documented working for the churches of the Franciscans and Santa Lucia, where there is an altarpiece dedicated to the saint. Around 1743 he settled permanently in Milan, with occasional trips to Piacenza where he received various public commissions, working on sacred subjects and portraits.