I'd love to know the actual story behind this painting

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A quick google search got me this

Four-Year-Old Girl with Cat and Fish (1647) by Jacob Gerritsz Cuyp (1594 - 1652), Dutch Golden Age painter

Also, "Cuyp was the most important portraitist in Dordrecht during the first half of the seventeenth century"

Girlbehindthecurtain · 31-35, F

@ElwoodBlues but why a fish and a cat tho?

DrWatson · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues Of course he was the most important portraitist. He was the only one who could cajole a girl to stand in place holding a fish and a cat! With talent like that, the man was bound to go places!

ElwoodBlues · M

@Girlbehindthecurtain Now that you have the title, artist, city, and date, see what else you can find and report back to us😂🤣