European School (c.1880), After Pieter de Hooch - A Mother's Duty

- Oil on canvas. Original canvas.

- This copy of "A Mother's Duty" by Pieter de Hooch is a true gem of genre painting, a tribute to the silence and sanctity of everyday life. The work captures, with moving skill, the essence of the 17th-century Dutch home, where light is not merely a technical device, but a divine presence filtering through the rooms and blessing the woman's devotion to her child. It is a tribute to patience and care: the artist—a skilled copyist—has managed to replicate the telescopic perspective so characteristic of De Hooch, inviting us to look beyond, toward a sunny courtyard that promises freedom, while in the foreground the tenderness of a humble task is celebrated.

- Image dimensions without frame: 50 x 60 cm / 67.5 x 78 cm with exclusive custom-made frame.

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