A Maid with a Child in a Pantry
Also titled Een dienstbode met een kind in een kelderkamer
Pieter de Hooch (Rotterdam, 1629–in o)
c. 1656 - c. 1660
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 65 cm x width 60.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
A maidservant shows a little boy the contents of her jug. At that time, all children wore dresses with walking reins to hold onto them while they learned to walk. De Hooch was renowned for his views through one space to another. He depicted two here: one to the cellar and another to the front room, where he painted the daylight streaming in pure white.
