Nicolaes Maes
Woman Scraping Parsnips with a Child
165535.6 x 29.8 cm
Oil on oak
Signed and dated bottom right: N MAES 1655 (MAE in monogram)
The National Gallery, London
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Werner Sumowski, Gemälde der Rembrandt-Schüler III, Landau/Pfalz, 1986, nr. 1333
Krempel A8
Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 240-241, plate 201
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 401
Literature
Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 142
Exhibitions
2017 Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry, Nr. 58
2011 Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence, Nr. 17
1976 Art in 17th-century Holland, Nr. 69
Provenance
[Jurriaans] sale, Amsterdam, 28 August 1817, nr. 33, bought by de Vries
Charles Long (later Baron Farnborough) by 1821
National Gallery, London, Lord Farnborough Bequest, 1838
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Portrait of Baroness van Heeckeren
The Eavesdropper
c. 1655-56
c. 1655-56
The eavesdropper
1657
1657
The lacemaker
c. 1655
c. 1655
The eavesdropper
1656
1656