Hey! I'm Spinning Here
"C'mon, baby, just a little sip. Let's have us a little party, just you and me, huh?"
"Back off, fella. Can't you see I'm spinning here?"
"Woman with Spinning Wheel, Man with Jug," painted in 1570 in the Netherlands.
Pieter Pietersz (1540/41-1603)
(click for big)
Hey! It's an Alden Amos wheel there in the lower left corner...
Posted by:Alfred | November 23, 2007 at 11:03 AM
Looks like she's listening to an Ipod while spinning! She doesn't need a man!
Posted by:Cindy D | September 18, 2007 at 12:02 PM
I love this one. I love that it has a niddy in it, and that the guy is being very familiar, despite the weapon(s) in her hands. And that is such 21st century thinking on my part.
Posted by:Laurie | September 04, 2007 at 09:40 AM
If you click on the link to the rijksmusum.nl page, there's another spinner portrait by Maarten van Heemskerck... I *love* these Dutch paintings.
Posted by:Sheila Bosworth | August 29, 2007 at 07:43 AM
What a hoot,he's just not going to miss an opportunity
Posted by:blogless sharon | August 28, 2007 at 09:58 PM
p.s. - remember artistic license. If the painter thought the niddy was too large in scale, he'd just paint it smaller. Sacrifice reality for the (ahem) better picture.
Posted by:Ruth S. | August 28, 2007 at 08:07 PM
OMG- At first glance, I thought the strap for her headscarf was for an iPod earpiece!! sorry, I was looking at the website Denise posted on ST - http://seehere.blogspot.com/ and got a dose of the sillies.
I'm thinking the left hand is holding the bobbin/spindle from the wheel.
Posted by:Ruth S | August 28, 2007 at 08:04 PM
That is hysterical.
Posted by:Cassie | August 28, 2007 at 03:32 PM
She's thinking, not now; not ever.
Posted by:Kathy | August 28, 2007 at 09:34 AM
Heh, the scene at my house on some nights. :)
Posted by:Teresa C | August 28, 2007 at 12:37 AM
Love the captioning you have put on this painting. It fits so well!
Posted by:Gail R | August 27, 2007 at 08:54 PM
Jeez, my brain isn't working. I obviously meant to say "the painter", not "the photographer"! Modern life, huh.
Posted by:Sigga Sif | August 27, 2007 at 06:23 PM
Brilliant! Her face looks so hopeful towards the photographer, silently begging him to get this idiot off her!
Posted by:Sigga Sif | August 27, 2007 at 06:20 PM
That's a knitty-noddy in her right hand and she's skeining what she's spun onto the bobbin that she's holding in her left hand. She certainly does look exasperated though.
Posted by:Sharon | August 27, 2007 at 06:05 PM
Hysterical commentary! The thing in her hand does look like a support spindle with frog hair on it. Perhaps it's also used as a nostepinde. The end will come in handy to poke the crap out of him as he tries to maneuver around the "bases" with her.
Posted by:Manise | August 27, 2007 at 05:09 PM
I'd like to second Abby's question: what is she holding in her left hand? And what kind of wheel is that, tucked into the bottom corner there?
Posted by:Em | August 27, 2007 at 12:21 PM
Wow, what a detailed painting! I've never seen a niddy-noddy represented on canvas before. Hers is quite small; I wonder why she was using such a tiny one? And the thing in her hand that looks like it might be a support spindle is actually a bobbin from the wheel next to her, I'm thinking. How intriguing! Off to click for big so I can see if there are grooves in it...
Posted by:Beth S. | August 27, 2007 at 12:21 PM
You can practically see her eyeroll.
Posted by:Kate | August 27, 2007 at 11:30 AM
I think she is saying *Not *this* guy again*.
Posted by:Sara | August 27, 2007 at 10:21 AM
I like the look on her face.
Posted by:margene | August 27, 2007 at 10:07 AM
I love Dutch paintings. This one is a beauty!
Posted by:Carole | August 27, 2007 at 09:39 AM
I'm intrigued by the left-hand object. Sorta looks like a Russian spindle. Removable spindle for her wheel? Actually a nostepinde? What is it?
Posted by:Abby Franquemont | August 27, 2007 at 09:37 AM