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Lit brightly against an otherwise shadowy room, a seated, older woman and a standing young boy face each near a spinning wheel in this horizontal painting. Both have pale skin. The woman sits in a wooden chair facing our left in profile, as she cuts a slice into the top of a brown loaf in her lap. Her eyes and downturned mouth are lined with wrinkles, and jowls sag along her jawline. She has slightly protruding eyes, and the skin of her neck hangs a little loose. Her head is wrapped in a white, lace-edged scarf, which is gathered at the base of her skull. She wears a white, pleated ruff…
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Saying Grace

painter Frans van Mieris (Dutch, 1635 - 1681)

c. 1650/1655

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 34.3 x 40 cm (13 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.) ; framed: 57.31 × 63.02 × 6.99 cm (22 9/16 × 24 13/16 × 2 3/4 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection, 1926)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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