''A Mother's Duty'' (1658–1660) is an
oil
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-on-canvas
Dutch Golden Age painting
Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence.
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painter
Pieter de Hooch
Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch (; also spelled ''Hoogh'' or ''Hooghe''; 20 December 1629 – after 1683), was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary, in the ...
. It is part of the collection of the
Amsterdam Museum
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, on loan to the
Rijksmuseum
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.
Description
This painting by Hooch showing a woman delousing a child's hair was documented by
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* Cornelis Hofstede de Groot
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in 1910, who wrote:
71. MOTHER COMBING HER CHILD'S HAIR. Sm.
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33, 4, 67; de G. 5. In a homely bedroom sits a woman in profile to the right. She wears a red blouse and blue skirt, and is de-lousing her daughter's hair who kneels before her with her head in her lap. Behind her is an elevated, recessed bed with curtains; a child's chair
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stands in the right foreground. The door on the left, near which is a little dog, opens into a second room, through the door of which is seen a garden with slender trees. This is one of the finest pictures by De Hooch in Holland. ompare 74.Signed on the chair "Pr d' hooch"; canvas on panel, 21 inches by 24 inches. Wrongly attributed to E. Boursse in the 1887 catalogue of the Rijksmuseum ; the signature is absolutely genuine, and is wrongly described as doubtful in the 1905 catalogue.
* Gerard Braamcamp, Amsterdam, July 31, 1771, No. 88 (610 florins, Van der Dussen), (compare also Hoet, ii. 504).
* J. L. van der Dussen, in Amsterdam, October 31, 1774, No. 7 (750 florins).
* J. J. de J. J. de Faesch, in Amsterdam, July 3, 1833, No. 20 (3500 florins plus 7 1/2 per cent, bought in; or 2590 florins, Jansen for Moget).
* Amsterdam, April 24, 1838, No. 18 (3311 florins, Brondgeest). Formerly in the Van der Hoop collection, Amsterdam.
* Now in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest; No. 1250 in the 1905 catalogue (formerly No. 685).entry 71 for Mother Combing her Child's Hair
in Hofstede de Groot, 1908
Gallery
This painting seems to have been a successful design for De Hooch as there are several variations on the subject of this bedroom and its doorway outside:
File:Pieter de Hooch - The Bedroom - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Bedroom'' (Widener Collection)
File:Pieter de Hooch - The Bedroom - WGA11695.jpg, ''The Bedroom'' (Karlsruhe)
File:Pieter de Hooch - The Golf Players - c.1658.jpg, '' The Golf Players''
See also
*
List of paintings by Pieter de Hooch
References
External links
Interieur met vrouw die een kind luist, ca. 1658-1660in the
RKD
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1650s paintings
Paintings in the Rijksmuseum
Paintings by Pieter de Hooch
Paintings in the Amsterdam Museum
Paintings of dogs
Paintings of women
Paintings of children
Oil on canvas paintings
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