4238 - Sleeping bobbin lacemaker after Nicolaes Maes

Sleeping bobbin lacemaker after Nicolaes Maes Portrait of an elderly woman sitting and dozing in a stately interior, holding a book in her lap, in the background lies the open ‘Book of Amos’ by the Jewish prophet of the same name, which forms part of the ‘Twelve Prophets’ in the Tanakh, the Hebrew Bible; to the right of it, illuminated by mystical sunlight, a bobbin lace pillow, a delicately glazed copy after the painting by Nicolaes Maes (1634, Dordrecht - 1693, Amsterdam), created around 1656, which is now housed in the Koninklijke Musea voor Schone Kunsten van België in Brussels, oil on hardboard, inscribed on the reverse as ‘Painted + framed by H. Meyertöns, Chemnitz (c. 1980)’ and dedicated on the frame ‘for Gisela Zwickau’, in an older frame, Inner dimensions (including mount) approx. 50 x 40 cm.