Woman Lacing Her Bodice Beside a Cradle

Woman lacing her bodice beside a cradle

Artist	Pieter de Hooch
Year	1660 (1660)
Dimensions	92 cm × 100 cm (36 in × 39 in)
Location	Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Berlin

Woman lacing her bodice beside a cradle (c. 1660) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

This painting was the third painting by Hooch documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote; "3. MOTHER BESIDE A CRADLE. Sm. 9, 52, Suppl. 26 ; deG. 16.^[1] Beside a cradle in the left foreground of a room with tiled floor sits a young woman, who has just suckled her baby and is fastening up her bodice, smiling, as she does so, at the child in the cradle who is not visible to the spectator. Behind her, on the left, in a panelled recess, is a four-post bed with a blue and white striped curtain. On the panelling hang a brass warming-pan and a red skirt. Beside the woman is a dog, lazily stretching himself. On the extreme right, under a high window, the lower half of which is closed with shutters, stands a table with a candle-stick and a jug. An open door on the right leads into an ante-room where a young girl is standing before the half-open house-door, through which the sunshine streams in. It is the finest work by the master in Germany.

Canvas, 36 1/2 inches by 40 inches. Sale, M. Martin, Paris, March 22, 1790 (1500 francs). In the Hoffman collection, in Haarlem, 1827 and 1842 (Sm.). Sale. Schneider, Paris, April 6, 1876, No. 13 (135,000 francs, Berlin Museum). Then in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, later Bode Museum, of the Berlin State Museums, 1904 catalogue, No. 820b."^[2]

References

↑ Comparative table of catalog entries between John Smith's first Catalogue raisonné of Hooch and Hofstede de Groot's first list of Hooch paintings published in Oud Holland
↑ entry 3 for Mother beside a Cradle in Hofstede de Groot, 1908

Interieur met vrouw zittend naast een wieg, ca. 1661-1663 in the RKD
Copy by Sara Troost in the RKD

Paintings by Pieter de Hooch

List of paintings

Two Soldiers and a Serving Woman with a Trumpeter A Woman with a Basket of Beans in a Garden The Empty Glass A Man with Dead Birds, and Other Figures, in a Stable A Woman and Two Men in an Arbour Merry company with two men and two women The Golf Players A Woman Drinking with Two Men Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room A Woman with a Child in a Pantry A Dutch Courtyard Group portrait of an unknown family or company The Bedroom (Karlsruhe) The Bedroom (Widener Collection) A Mother's Duty Courtyard with an Arbour The Courtyard of a House in Delft A Man Smoking and a Woman Drinking in a Courtyard Interior with a Woman weighing Gold Coin Lady and her Cook A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy Woman Lacing Her Bodice Beside a Cradle Interior with a Young Couple and a Dog Company in a courtyard behind a house Going for a Walk in the Amsterdam Town Hall¨ A Woman Peeling Apples Two Women Beside a Linen Chest, with a Child A Boy Bringing Bread The Council Chamber in Amsterdam Town Hall Musical Party in a Hall Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid Interior with a Mother close to a Cradle The Maidservant Teaching a Child to Walk Interior of a Kitchen with a Woman, a Child and a Maid Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot Woman giving Money to a Servant-Girl Young woman with a letter and a messenger in an interior

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