# A Woman with a Baby in Her Lap, and a Small Child [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOOCH, Pieter de]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on panel, 60 x 47 cm ## Commentary While hardly unknown earlier, pictures affectionately describing the virtues of motherhood and the responsibilities of the housewife flourished remarkably on the Dutch art market during the third quarter of the seventeenth century. De Hooch could be considered the foremost representative of this development, especially in the late 1650s and early 1660s, when his finest domestic scenes were painted. The painting is signed and dated lower left: P.D.H./A 1658. ## 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 Nursing an Infant with a Child and a Dog]() - [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]()