Title

The Sick Child, c.1664-c.1666. Creator: Gabriel Metsu.

Caption

The Sick Child, c.1664-c.1666. A worried mother looks at her young daughter, slumped listlessly on her lap. Metsu chose an unusual subject, since depictions of poorly children are rare in 17th-century art. Perhaps he intended the mother to personify charity, Caritas. Then the picture of the Crucifixion on the wall would be a specific reference to Christ, who died for the love of Man on the Cross.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A84_013

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NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

71,3Mb (5,0Mb) / 15,0in x 18,4in / 4504 x 5534 (300dpi)

Keywords

Europe female women woman people child children girl girls interior health domestic family sitting painting parent museum Netherlands Dutch color mother illness caring Baroque motherhood century inside sickness sick ill household parenting charity childcare concept seated two people 17th century domestic life mum oil Painting Unwell Colour allegory child care personification daughter Indoors allegorical allegorical figure personifying seventeenth century artistic school Oil on canvas Rijksmuseum TGN portrait oil Gabriel Metsu Gabriel Metsue Gabriel Metzu Gabriel Metz Gabriel Metezu Gabriel Metse Gabriel Metza Gabriel Metzer Gabriel Metzur Gabriel Mitzu Baroque Era Metsu Gabriel Metsue Gabriel Metzue Gabriel Oil on canvas Painting Heritage Art Low Countries Metsu Gabri?l Gabri?l Metsu