Milkmaid

A milkmaid is loud Grimmschem dictionary a girl that has the milk concerned and also for sale.

Milk girls played in the history in the field of milk production and processing a large role. Their task consisted of, inter alia, Melktätigkeiten, butter production or selling of milk and milk products in the dairy market.

Synonymous with the term " dairy maid ". This designation applies more likely to be on the active in the production girls.

The scope of duties of the milkmaid corresponds to the milkmaid and the milkman.

Representations of milkmaids in art

There is a painting by the Dutch painter Jan Vermeer that a milkmaid at work showing ( 45.45 x 40.6 cm, oil on canvas, painted from 1658 to 1660, now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam).

Francisco de Goya painted in 1827 a milkmaid of Bordeaux (oil on canvas, 86 x 74 cm, Prado, Madrid).

Aelbert Jacobsz from. Cuyp comes the painting look at Dordrecht with a milkmaid and four cows from the period around 1650 ( oil on canvas, 157.5 x 197 cm, National Gallery, London). The Getty Museum in Los Angeles there is a drawing by the same artist, which shows a milkmaid ( built around 1640-1650 ).

From the French painter Julien Dupré comes the image Laitière (oil on canvas, 38.74 x 55.25 cm, deer Galleries, Inc., New York). From it there are other paintings depicting milkmaid.

Also known are some representations of milkmaid of the French painter Jean -François Millet.

In Saint- Lô is a bronze statue of Arthur Le Duc from 1888, which shows a milkmaid Normandy.

In the district of Cologne Poll there is a milkmaid statue in memory of the bollard milkmaid who brought up to the middle of the 20th century milk from Poll to Cologne. Until about 1900 with boat on the Rhine, then with carts drawn by dogs, asses, mules or horses. In Cologne, the milk was sold mostly by offering in solid areas but also through home delivery or at markets.

The Catherine Park at Tsarskoye Selo near Catherine Palace in Saint Petersburg a milkmaid statue sitting on a stone. The milkmaid with a broken pitcher comes from the workshop of the Russian sculptor Pavel Petrovich Sokolov. Two casts of the 1807/10 created the original are now in the park of Schloss Britz and Glienicke in Berlin.

Other correlations

In Sanskrit there is the figure of the milkmaid as Gopi ( translated as Kuhhirtin ), which is regarded as a devotee of Krishna. It was, inter alia,, relating the story of the young Krishna celebrated in a poem by Sur Das, a poet Krishna as butter thief.

In Normandy, the milkmaid ( Laitière ) is an important cultural icon.