761 - Genre Painter, Family Portrait with Man, Woman and Child with Coins, probably 18th/19th Century

Genre Painter, Family Portrait with Man, Woman and Child with Coins, probably 18th/19th Century Oil on canvas, relined, unsigned, probably 18th/19th century, group of three figures before a dark ground, in the right foreground a young woman in profile to the left with dark pinned-up hair, white blouse, red bodice and dark cloak, behind her in half-darkness a man with long dark hair and moustache, on the left a child with blond curly hair in a blue robe looking up at the woman and laying its hand on her shoulder, the woman holding a coin between her fingers, in front of her further coins on the parapet, age-appropriate condition, retouching, heavily cracked, paint losses, image 70x55.5 cm (HxW), framed in a gold-coloured frame with fluted moulding and relief corner rosettes, frame chipped, frame width 7.5 cm Half-length groups in close-up before a dark ground go back to the Utrecht Caravaggisti, who around 1620 with ter Brugghen, Honthorst and Baburen introduced Caravaggism with its chiaroscuro and its genre scenes such as card players into Dutch painting and influenced later painters. Genre painting reached its peak in the Dutch and Flemish painting of the 17th and 18th centuries; this family picture with coins as a half-length picture before a dark ground follows that genre scene of the Old Master paintings in the format of the cabinet picture.