A Mother with her Children
1690
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
25; 32; 4.5
About this artwork
height 32 cm x width 25 cm
Art Historical Context
Cornelis Dusart’s *A Mother with her Children* (1690) captures a tender domestic moment in the Dutch Republic’s late Golden Age. Working in the tradition of Haarlem genre painters, Dusart specialized in small-scale scenes of everyday life that appealed to the growing middle-class collectors of the period. The modest dimensions—barely larger than a sheet of paper—invite close, personal viewing, turning the panel into a quiet celebration of maternal care and childhood play. Painted in oil on panel, the work exploits the smooth surface to render fine textures of fabric, skin, and wood with lumin...
About the Artist
Cornelis Dusart · 1660–1704
Cornelis Dusart (1660–1704) was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and printmaker who stands as one of the most important continuators of the peasant genre tradition established by Adriaen van Ostade in Haarlem. Born in Haarlem, Dusart entered Van Ostade's workshop as a pupil and assistant, a relationship that proved formative in every respect. He so thoroughly absorbed his master's approach — the depi...