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Scenes of mothers and children were fashionable in eighteenth-century France, much encouraged by the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who advocated a ‘natural’ approach to child-rearing. A young mother is sitting in a beam of light at a table with three of her infants wriggling on her lap. An older child is seated at the table, while another plays in the shadows on the floor and a baby’s cradle is rocked by an old woman. The young servant’s headdress and the straw-covered flask of wine on the table suggest that the artist was in or knew Italy. They were clearly familiar with Greuze’s painting The Well-Beloved Mother (private collection, Madrid) as the group of the mother and children is very similar. We do not know who painted this picture.
Title
Interior Scene
Date
late 18th century
Medium
Oil on canvas
Measurements
H 37.5 x W 48.3 cm
Accession number
NG2620
Acquisition method
Salting Bequest, 1910
Work type
Painting
