Interior of a Barn, 1644, Egbert van der Poel, Dutch, 1621-1664, 18 1/2 x 25 in. (46.99 x 63.5 cm) (panel), Oil on panel, Netherlands, 17th century, The children are fighting, the woman has stopped working on a cow carcass to scold them. Just another day in the barn. Egbert van der Poel, a respected Dutch artist who thought of himself as a landscape painter, painted many such scenes of country life. Dramatic images of burning buildings at night were a specialty, as were interior tableaus like this one. The buckets, basins, and bowls near the woman resemble the household still lifes for which Dutch artists in the 1600s were known.