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Old Woman Unloosing a Child
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Old Woman Unloosing a Child

Jan Baptist de Wael · 1642 - 1669 · etching; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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An old woman sits in front of a house and is combing a child's hair. The child has its head in the woman's lap. To the right a woman with a child on her arm looks at the viewer. In the background a woman is drawing water from a well with a bucket. Laundry is hanging on a line to dry at the house.

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Credit lineOude vrouw ontluist een kind. 1642 - 1669. Jan Baptist de Wael. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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