File:Amsterdam - Rijksmuseum 1885 - The Gallery of Honour (1st Floor) - A Mother Delousing her Child’s Hair, Known as ‘A Mother’s Duty’ c. 1658-60 by Pieter de Hooch.jpg
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Pieter de Hooch: A Mother's Duty
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| Title |
A Mother Delousing her Child’s Hair, Known as ‘A Mother’s Duty’  |
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| Object type |
painting |
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| Genre |
genre art |
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| Description |
Interior with a mother delousing her child's hair, known as 'A Mother's Duty'. The mother sits to the right in front of a bedstede. Further to the right a high chair. To the left a dog sits on the tiled floor looking towards an open window in the adjacent room. Over the door hangs a small landscape painting. |
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| Date | Circa 1658-1660 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 52.5 cm (20.6 in); width: 61 cm (24 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Collection |
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| Current location |
Gallery of Honour |
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| Accession number |
SK-C-149 |
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| Place of creation | Northern Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
18 August 1817: sale of the collection of Mrs. A.M. Hogguer-Ebeling at an unknown auction house, Amsterdam, lot no. 19 1854: bequeathed to the city of Amsterdam by Adriaan van der Hoop, Amsterdam |
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| Exhibition history |
Pieter de Hooch 1629-1684, 3 September 1998–15 November 1998, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Cat.no. 22. The Golden Age. Highlights from the Rijksmuseum, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 24 June 2005–2 October 2005, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, 25 October 2005–15 January 2006. La ragazza alla spinetta di Johannes Vermeer e gli artisti di Delft, Galleria Estense, Modena, 14 April 2007–15 July 2007, p. 218. Rembrandt and the Golden Age. Highlights from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 2 November 2007–13 February 2008, cat. no. 74. Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch painting. Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum, 9 May 2009–13 September 2009, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, ISBN 978-1-55365-471-1, p. 226-227. |
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| Inscriptions |
bottom right: Pr. de hooch.
on the children's chair |
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| References |
Anonymous, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue, as A Mother Delousing her Child’s Hair, Known as ‘A Mother’s Duty’, circa 1658-circa 1660. Anonymous, RKDimages, Art-work number 25655, as Woman delousing a child's hair, circa 1658-1660 (1656-1662) Anonymous, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage Photolibrary, object number 40004710, as Binnenkamer met een moeder die het haar van haar kind reinigt, bekend als ‘Moedertaak’, 1658-1660. Domenicus-van Soest, Marleen (2003) Les Chefs-d'oeuvre. Guide [mus.cat.], [Amsterdam]: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, p. 115, as Intérieur avec une mère qui nettoie la chevelure de son enfant ou « La Tâche maternelle ». |
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