A Mother Delousing her Child’s Hair, Known as ‘A Mother’s Duty’

• Interior with a Mother Delousing her Child's Hair, known as 'A Mother's Duty'
• A Mother Delousing her Child’s Hair, Known as ‘A Mother’s Duty’

SK-C-149

signature: ‘Pr. de. hooch.’

A mother thoroughly inspects her child’s head for lice. She pursues her task in a sober Dutch interior, with Delft blue tiles and a box bed. In the right foreground is a ‘kakstoel’, or potty chair. Through the doorway is a glimpse of a sunny back room and a garden. De Hooch specialized in such ‘through-views’.

C. Willemijn Fock, 'Werkelijkheid of Schijn. Het Beeld Van Het Hollandse Interieur in De Zeventiende-Eeuwse Genreschilderkunst', Oud Holland 112 (1998), nr. 4, p. 233, afb. 49.

painter: Pieter de Hooch

c. 1660 - c. 1661

olieverf op doek

height 52.5 cm x width 61 cm

On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)

Public domain

C. Willemijn Fock, 'Werkelijkheid of Schijn. Het Beeld Van Het Hollandse Interieur in De Zeventiende-Eeuwse Genreschilderkunst', Oud Holland 112 (1998), nr. 4, p. 233, afb. 49.

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