Woman lacing her bodice beside a cradle is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, created c. 1660–1663. It is part of the collection of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

Woman lacing her bodice beside a cradle
Artist	Pieter de Hooch
Year	c. 1660–1663
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	92 cm × 100 cm (36 in × 39 in)
Location	Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Berlin

This painting was the third painting by Hooch documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:

3. MOTHER BESIDE A CRADLE. Sm. 9, 52, Suppl. 26; deG. 16.[1] Beside a cradle in the left foreground of a room with tiled floor sits a young woman, who has just suckled her baby and is fastening

up her bodice, smiling, as she does so, at the child in the cradle who is not visible to the spectator. Behind her, on the left, in a panelled recess, is a four-post bed with a blue and white striped curtain. On the panelling hang a brass warming-pan and a red skirt. Beside the woman is a dog, lazily stretching himself. On the extreme right, under a high window, the lower half of which is closed with shutters, stands a table with a candle-stick and a jug. An open door on the right leads into an ante-room where a young girl is standing before the half-open house-door, through which the sunshine streams in. It is the finest work by the master in Germany.

Canvas, 36 1/2 inches by 40 inches. Sale, M. Martin, Paris, March 22, 1790 (1500 francs). In the Hoffman collection, in Haarlem, 1827 and 1842 (Sm.). Sale. Schneider, Paris, April 6, 1876, No. 13 (135,000 francs, Berlin Museum).

Then in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, later Bode Museum, of the Berlin State Museums, 1904 catalogue, No. 820b.[2]

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• Interieur met vrouw zittend naast een wieg, ca. 1661-1663 in the RKD
• Copy by Sara Troost in the RKD

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[de] Die Mutter (Pieter de Hooch)

[fr] Femme laçant son corsage près d'un berceau