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A description of the work appears in ‘Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting’, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984, p.159. An extract reads: ‘The interior with a woman and girls making lace from 1654, a related painting by Brekelenkam that has recently come to light, depicts a simple domestic interior that has been converted into a workshop for the instruction of lacemaking. The naaikussen (literally, sewing cushions) stored on the shelf behind the group suggest that this is more than a simple family activity. Apparently the standing girl has just left her seat to learn an aspect of the lacemaking process. The cloak draped over the empty chair seem to indicate that she is an outsider who has come for instruction.
Title
Women Making Lace
Date
1800 (?)
Medium
watercolour on paper (?)
Measurements
H 52.6 x W 70.3 cm
Accession number
35168i
Acquisition method
presumed to be part of the collection formed by Henry S. Wellcome
Work type
Watercolour
