# A Woman Nursing an Infant with a Child and a Dog [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOOCH, Pieter de]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 68 x 56 cm ## Commentary Pieter de Hooch produced some of his best genre paintings at the end of the 1550s, during his last years in Delft. A Woman Nursing an Infant with a Child and a Dog belongs to this group. In this tranquil interior a mother tenderly breastfeeds her infant. Her solicitous rectitude is imitated by the older child to her right. In an action that parallels that of her mother, the girl feeds the family dog from a dinner pot. ## Related artworks - [A Couple Playing Cards, with a Serving Woman]() - [A Dutch Courtyard \(detail\)]() - [A Dutch Courtyard]() - [A Woman and Two Men in an Arbour]() - [A Woman Drinking with Two Men]() - [A Woman with a Baby in Her Lap, and a Small Child]() - [At the Linen Closet]() - [Card Players at a Table]() - [Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room]() - [Company Making Music]() - [Couple with Parrot]() - [Figures Drinking in a Courtyard]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()