The Lacemaker

The Lacemaker is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes, created c. 1656. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.

This painting is typical of many paintings of women in interiors painted by Maes in the time. The woman is making bobbin lace using a lace pillow that can be seen in other Maes paintings of lacemakers:

The child in a highchair was a popular subject for many Dutch genre painters, and this painting shows how it was used as a safe place to play as well as for eating. The empty bowl of porridge is on the floor along with some other items the boy has let fall. He is wearing a red valhoed or falling cap, which seems to indicate that confinement in the chair is necessary if any lacemaking is going to get done.

Some other 17th-century examples of paintings of children with their high chairs…

摘自英文维基百科「The Lacemaker (Maes)」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。