# Interior with a Family and Two Nurses before a Fire [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MAN, Cornelis de]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on panel, 52 x 45 cm ## Commentary Formerly this painting was attributed to the Amsterdam painter Esias Boursse. It is not surprising since Cornelis de Man and Esias Boursse were both clearly much influenced by the work of their Delft contemporaries Pieter de Hooch and Johannes Vermeer. The feature of the prominent fireplace on the right side of the composition appears to have been a favourite of de Man's, and a very similar compositional arrangement recurs in his most famous work, the <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/man/chess\_pl.html'\)" href="/html/m/man/chess\_pl.html">Chess players</A> of around 1670. ## Related artworks - [A Man Weighing Gold]() - [Interior of a Townhouse]() - [Interior of the Laurenskerk, Rotterdam]() - [Interior of the Oude Kerk, Delft]() - [Interior of the Oude Kerk in Delft]() - [The Chess Players]() - [The Reading Lesson]() - [The Whale-oil Factory on Jan Mayen Island]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()