Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid

Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid (1665–1668) 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 Amsterdam Museum.

Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid
Artist	Pieter de Hooch
Year	1665–1668
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	37 cm × 42 cm (14.5 in × 16.5 in)
Location	Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam

This was the second de Hooch painting documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote:

2. MOTHER WITH A CHILD AND A CHAMBERMAID. Sm. 31 and Suppl. 12; deG. 4.^[1] To the left, but near the centre of the picture, sits a woman, holding a little child on her lap with her left hand. She wears a blue jacket trimmed with fur and a red skirt; at her right is a wicker cradle. Farther back, to the right of the fireplace, a chambermaid is sweeping the tiled floor. Bright sunlight falls from the window high up on the left, and illumines the back wall, on which hangs a picture. Another picture hangs over the fireplace; below is a chair. In the left foreground is a table with a cloth, upon which is a basket. The open door at the back shows a view of a canal with a stone bridge and a sunlit house.

Signed "P. D. HOOCH"; oak panel, 14 1/2 inches by 16 1/2 inches. A replica is in the Stockholm Museum. Sales:

• P. Locquet, in Amsterdam, September 22, 1783, No. 139 (355 florins, Delfos).
• Jurriaans, August 28, 1817 (990 florins, De Vries).
• G. Schimmelpenninck, in Amsterdam, July 12, 1819, No. 40 (799 florins, De Vries).
• Amsterdam, May 14, 1832, No. 37 (925 florins, De Vries).
• In the Van der Hoop collection, 1842 (Sm.).

Now in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam, No. 1252 in the 1903 catalogue (formerly No. 684).^[2]

See also

• List of paintings by Pieter de Hooch