Artwork
Mother and Child
Mother and Child is an oil painting by the Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Steen. It dates from 1650 and is held in the collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
About this work
Overview
Mother and Child is an oil painting by Jan Steen, created around 1650. It is a genre scene held at the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister.
Subject & Meaning
The painting captures a tender moment between a mother and her swaddled infant. The mother, dressed in dark clothing with a white head covering, sits calmly feeding her baby from a spoon. The scene conveys a sense of intimacy and maternal care.
Technique & Style
The use of chiaroscuro in the painting creates a warm and deep atmosphere, drawing attention to the mother and child. The dimly lit room, with a window on the left, adds to the sense of depth and coziness.
Artist & collection
Artist
Jan Havickszoon Steen was a Dutch Golden Age painter, one of the leading genre painters of the 17th century.
Paintings of physicians by Jan Steen
The Dissolute Household
Merry Company on a Terrace
Esther, Ahasuerus, and Haman
Interior of an inn with an old man amusing himself with the landlady and two men playing backgammon, known as 'Two kinds of games'
The Drunken Couple
The Happy Family
Bathsheba after the Bath
Eine nähende Mutter mit ihrem Kind
Interior with Nursing Mother
Untitled
An Old Woman Twisting Threads and Two Children in the Room
Virgin and Child with St Anne
Nursing mother with three girls
Sending the Boy for Beer
Het zieke kind
Market Woman with a Boy and Herring in a Window
Peasant Woman with a Cat
Interior with three Peasants
The Sick Child