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Black Woman with Child is a full-length portrait of a Black woman with a child painted in c. 1650 by the Dutch painter Albert Eckhout. It is in the collection of the National Museum of Denmark, in Copenhagen.

The sitters are unidentified, since the purpose of the painting was not to convey the character of a specific woman with her child, but rather to describe an ethnic New World type. The painting featured as the cover of the book Albert Eckhout, Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil in 2006, and then it appeared in the 2008 exhibition in Amsterdam called Black is beautiful: Rubens tot Dumas. Eckhout was one of six scientific artists invited by John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen to go to Brazil to document life there. Of the others, only Frans Post and Georg Marcgraf are known today. The doctor Willem Piso, who was on the expedition team as a naturalist, later together with Marcgraf…

摘自英文维基百科「Black Woman with Child」（CC BY-SA 4.0），暂时没有中文条目。