The Stepmother

A dining room with figures around a table. On the right a richly dressed woman and child. Opposite them three soberly dressed gentlemen. A man serves them. On the right in the background a child eating from a pan. On the left a servant with glasses. Scene from the comedy The Stepmother by Thomas Asselyn from 1684, in which the character Jochem visits the poor family of his second wife. His own child has to lick the pot, while his second wife and her family get the tastiest food.