The Stepmother

A dining room with figures around a table at which a standing gentleman serves a plate to his guests. On the right, a richly dressed woman and child. Opposite them three soberly dressed gentlemen. On the right in the background, a child eating from a pan. In the foreground, a child at the table gives a piece of meat to a dog. On the left, a servant with glasses. Scene from the comedy De Stiefmoêr by Thomas Asselyn from 1684, in which the character Jochem receives a visit from the poor family of his second wife. His own child must lick the pot, while his second wife and her family get the best food. At the bottom of the margin, two six-line verses in Dutch and French.