Mother Combing Her Child's Hair

1660s

Jan Baptist de Wael

Artist, Flemish, 1632 - after 1669

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.7 x 13 cm (3 7/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 15.5 x 20.4 cm (6 1/8 x 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2000.12.2.j

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 14, State ii/ii

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Associated Artworks

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A Woman Spinning

Jan Baptist de Wael

1660

The Village Surgeon

Jan Baptist de Wael

1660

Falconer and a Lady

Jan Baptist de Wael

1660

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Jan Johnson, Montreal); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: 12.

Wikidata ID

Q75426634

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