![Gerard ter Borch - The Apple Peeler [c.1660] by Gandalf's Gallery](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3725/11748497643_413d1635d6.jpg)
The picture is a characteristic example of Dutch fine painting. The homely scene, in which a small girl attentively watches her mother peel apples, is probably a reference to a moralising epigram that warns against fulfilling every wish of a child but even more so against doing the same for oneself. Parental care was a popular subject both in Dutch painting as well as in contemporary literature.
[Kunsthistorishes Museum, Vienna]