Learning to Walk. Teaching a Child to Walk is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch.
It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Museum der bildenden Künste. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908.
In the left-hand corner of a room sits a woman, almost directly facing the spectator. She wears an orange-coloured dress and has a basket of apples on her lap, and a dish of peeled apples on a chair beside her.
On the right a servant-girl, with skirt tucked up, is bringing a child in leading-strings. The child stretches its hands towards an apple which the mother holds out.
Behind the servant-girl is a fireplace with a pilaster worked in delicate relief; upon the chimney-piece are Chinese porcelain vases, and above it hangs a picture. In the left foreground, below a half-opened window, is a table with an Oriental carpet, upon which are a mug on a tray, and a glass. This part of the room with the lower corner of the open window is reflected in a mirror, which hangs above the woman's head on a wall illumined with yellow light. It is a genuine, though not a very well preserved, picture of the later years of his best period. Signed to the left on the window-frame P de hooch; canvas, 26 1/2 inches by 24 inches. Described by Parthey, 1863. Bought in 1811 according to the Ltitzschena catalogue. The picture described by Sm., me
It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Museum der bildenden Künste. This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908.
In the left-hand corner of a room sits a woman, almost directly facing the spectator. She wears an orange-coloured dress and has a basket of apples on her lap, and a dish of peeled apples on a chair beside her.
On the right a servant-girl, with skirt tucked up, is bringing a child in leading-strings. The child stretches its hands towards an apple which the mother holds out.
Behind the servant-girl is a fireplace with a pilaster worked in delicate relief; upon the chimney-piece are Chinese porcelain vases, and above it hangs a picture. In the left foreground, below a half-opened window, is a table with an Oriental carpet, upon which are a mug on a tray, and a glass. This part of the room with the lower corner of the open window is reflected in a mirror, which hangs above the woman's head on a wall illumined with yellow light. It is a genuine, though not a very well preserved, picture of the later years of his best period. Signed to the left on the window-frame P de hooch; canvas, 26 1/2 inches by 24 inches. Described by Parthey, 1863. Bought in 1811 according to the Ltitzschena catalogue. The picture described by Sm., me
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