An Old Woman Dozing
Nicolaes Maes · 1656
Why it's great
An old woman sits dozing over a Bible with her head on her hand, while a servant peeks in. Nicolaes Maes painted it in about 1656, and he was a student of Rembrandt.
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Nicolaes Maes was a Dutch painter born in Dordrecht in 1634. He studied with Rembrandt, painted quiet home scenes of old women and children and later became a society portrait painter in Amsterdam. He died in 1693.
