The Tailor’s Workshop
Also titled De kleermakerswerkplaats
Quiringh Gerritsz. van Brekelenkam (Zwammerdam, na 1–na 1)
1661 - 1662
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 66 cm x width 53.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- 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 woman runs errands with a market bucket on her arm. Inside the tailor’s workshop, she deliberates over a coat. The tailors are seated on a raised platform to make the most of the daylight. A hank of thread hangs at the ready above the table. Hanging on the wall is a river landscape, dispelling the notion that only affluent individuals could afford to have paintings in their homes in the 17th century.
