# Mother Holding her Child in a Doorway [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [OSTADE, Adriaen Jansz. van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on oak panel, 37 x 29 cm ## Commentary Ostade made a number of etchings of single figures in doorways, from the late 1640s onwards, and in the years around 1670, he concentrated on gentle domestic subjects in his etched as well as his painted oeuvre. As well as paintings and etchings, he also made finished watercolour drawings of such subjects. ## Related artworks - [A Fight]() - [A Man With Pince-Nez \(The Sense of Sight\)]() - [Alchemist]() - [Barber Extracting of Tooth]() - [Brawl]() - [Carousing Peasants in a Tavern]() - [Comedian Reading in a Tavern]() - [Cutting the Feather]() - [Feasting Peasants in a Tavern]() - [Flute Player]() - [Inn Scene]() - [Interior of a Farmhouse with Skaters]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()