Saying Grace
Also titled Het gebed voor de maaltijd
Cornelis Pietersz. Bega (Haarlem, ca. –1664)
1663
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 37.5 cm x width 30 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
Seated at a table in a run-down interior, an elderly man and a young woman pray before their meal. The painting contains a lesson that many Dutch Protestants learned at their mother’s knee: whether you are rich or poor, sick or healthy, be grateful for all you have, for it is a gift from God.
