Interior with a Mother Close to a Cradle is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, created c. 1665–1670. It is part of the collection of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.
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| Artist | Pieter de Hooch |
| Year | c. 1665–1670 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 54 cm × 65 cm (21 in × 26 in) |
| Location | Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:
13. MOTHER BESIDE A CRADLE. deG. 83.[1] This represents a dark room, partly illumined by sunlight, which streams through the window, and is reflected in the tiles of the floor. A young mother
sits with her little girl on her lap, and points with her left hand to the cradle standing beside her. The woman wears a red skirt, the girl a yellow skirt. To the right is the fireplace; beside it is a four-post bed, at which a servant-maid is busy. The open door gives a clear view of a street beside a canal. It is almost the same composition as the picture formerly in the Van der Hoop collection (2). It is dark, unattractive, and late.
Signed indistinctly "P.D. HOO"; canvas, 21 inches by 26 inches. Mentioned in an inventory of 1816. Now in the National Museum at Stockholm, No. 473 in the 1900 catalogue.
- 13a. Picture with a Woman and Child. Sale. Amsterdam, April II, 1698 (Hoet, i. 43), No. 20 (21 florins).
- 13b. A Woman laying a Child in a Cradle, in an Interior. Sale. Dav. letswaart, in Amsterdam, April 22, 1749 (Hoet, ii. 250), No. 191 (16 florins 10).
- Compare the picture in Fleischmann collection (8).[2]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ This is shorthand for the catalog entry of Hofstede de Groot's first list of Hooch paintings published in Oud Holland
- ^ entry 13 for Mother beside a Cradle in Hofstede de Groot, 1910
External links
edit- Interiör med moder vid vaggan in the Europeana database
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