The Lacemaker (Maes)

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The Lacemaker
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Artist Nicolaes Maes   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Yearc. 1656
Medium oil paint, canvas
Dimensions45 cm (18 in) × 53 cm (21 in)
Location Metropolitan Museum of Art
Accession No.32.100.5  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Identifiers RKDimages ID: 249877
The Met object ID: 436932
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The Lacemaker is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes, created c. 1656. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.

This painting is typical of many paintings of women in interiors painted by Maes in the time. [1] The woman is making bobbin lace using a lace pillow that can be seen in other Maes paintings of lacemakers:

The child in a highchair was a popular subject for many Dutch genre painters, and this painting shows how it was used as a safe place to play as well as for eating. The empty bowl of porridge is on the floor along with some other items the boy has let fall. He is wearing a red valhoed or falling cap, which seems to indicate that confinement in the chair is necessary if any lacemaking is going to get done. Some other 17th-century examples of paintings of children with their high chairs:

This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1914, who wrote; "75. A Young Lace-Maker. Sm. Suppl. 13. She wears a red dress and white apron, and sits at a window which lights the room. Beside her, her little child, in a yellow frock, plays in a wooden chair. To the right is a table with a red cover, on which is an earthenware pot. Signed in full in large antique letters; canvas, 17 1/2 inches by 20 inches according to Sm. and Waagen, but 33 1/2 inches by 30 1/2 inches according to the Manchester Catalogue. Exhibited in Manchester, 1857, No. 1050. In the collection of H. Labouchere, London, 1842 (Sm.) and 1854 (Waagen, ii. 421)." [2]

In 1916 Labouchere's heir sold it for $25,000 to F. Kleinberger who in turn sold it on for $27,500 to Michael Friedsam. Friedsam bequeathed it to the museum in 1931.

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References

  1. ↑ Catalog nr. 110 in Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Volume I, by Walter Liedtke, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007
  2. ↑ 75. A Young Lace-Maker" in Hofstede de Groot, 1914 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
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