Woman at a Cradle

• Woman at a Cradle
• Young Woman at a Cradle

Young Woman at a Cradle

SK-A-4047

Has the baby fallen asleep yet? A woman carefully lifts the cloth draped over the cradle. Her book of verses rests in her lap. The fall of light and warm red hues of the blanket draw attention to the woman with her child. Maes heightened the intimacy of this scene by incorporating a drawn-back curtain at the right.

painter: Nicolaes Maes

1652 - 1662

olieverf op doek

height 33.8 cm x width 28.8 cm

De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

bequest 1961

Public domain

Inv.; sale, Oscar Huldschinsky (1846-1931, Berlin), Berlin (P. Cassirer and Hugo Helbing), 10 May 1928 sqq., no. 19, fl. 41,835, to the dealer P. & D. Colnaghi for Isaäc de Bruyn (1872-1953), Spiez and Muri, near Bern;{Note RMA.} donated to the museum by Isaäc de Bruijn and his wife, Johanna Geertruida de Bruyn- van der Leeuw (1877-1960), Spiez and Muri, near Bern, 1949, but kept in usufruct;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1961

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