# Woman Washing Her Hands [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [NEER, Eglon van der]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on panel, 49 x 40 cm ## Commentary Van der Neer has infused this panel with a rarefied level of elegance and refinement seldom witnessed in Dutch genre painting. A classicising feature is the richly ornamented mantelpiece with Corinthian columns. The painter renders a tempestuous exchange between background figures in an emotionally charged manner as a maid forcefully prevents a young man from approaching her unkempt mistress. This background, stage-like scene amplifies the action of the sartorially splendid lady in the foreground, who washes her hands with the assistance of a boy dressed in a French pages outfit, holding a sumptuous silver basin and ewer. ## Related artworks - [A Lady Drawing]() - [Allegory of Religion]() - [Children with a Cage and a Cat]() - [Elegant Couple in an Interior \(detail\)]() - [Elegant Couple in an Interior]() - [Family Portrait]() - [Lady Playing a Lute]() - [Pastoral Landscape]() - [Portrait of a Young Woman]() - [The Fainting Fit]() - [The Penitent Magdalene]() - [The Reader]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()