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A child and woman stand at the open door of an entryway with black and white marble floors, as the child drops a coin into the hat of a disheveled boy accompanied by a nursing mother across the threshold in this vertical painting. Beyond the entryway, a man and woman look on from a room with a landscape painting hanging over a tall mantle. All the people have pale skin. The child standing with the woman inside, near the door, looks at us with gray eyes. Blond ringlets frame a round face with full cheeks, a snub nose, and parted coral-red lips. The ringlets are tied with butter-yellow ribbons…

A Nurse and a Child in an Elegant Foyer

Jacob Ochtervelt (Dutch, 1634 - 1682)

1663 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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