Interior with a Mother Close to a Cradle

Interior with a Mother Close to a Cradle is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, created c. 1665–1670. It is part of the collection of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm.

Interior with a Mother Close to a Cradle
Artist	Pieter de Hooch
Year	c. 1665–1670
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	54 cm × 65 cm (21 in × 26 in)
Location	Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:

13. MOTHER BESIDE A CRADLE. deG. 83.^[1] This represents a dark room, partly illumined by sunlight, which streams through the window, and is reflected in the tiles of the floor. A young mother

sits with her little girl on her lap, and points with her left hand to the cradle standing beside her. The woman wears a red skirt, the girl a yellow skirt. To the right is the fireplace; beside it is a four-post bed, at which a servant-maid is busy. The open door gives a clear view of a street beside a canal. It is almost the same composition as the picture formerly in the Van der Hoop collection (2). It is dark, unattractive, and late.

Signed indistinctly "P.D. HOO"; canvas, 21 inches by 26 inches. Mentioned in an inventory of 1816. Now in the National Museum at Stockholm, No. 473 in the 1900 catalogue.

• 13a. Picture with a Woman and Child. Sale. Amsterdam, April II, 1698 (Hoet, i. 43), No. 20 (21 florins).
• 13b. A Woman laying a Child in a Cradle, in an Interior. Sale. Dav. letswaart, in Amsterdam, April 22, 1749 (Hoet, ii. 250), No. 191 (16 florins 10).
• Compare the picture in Fleischmann collection (8).^[2]

See also

• List of paintings by Pieter de Hooch