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Peasant Family at a Well

The Master of the Children's Caps · 1650/60

Palette

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Artist

The Master of the Children's Caps

Date

1650/60

Type

Painting

Medium

Oil on canvas

Size

97.5 × 103.2 cm (38 3/8 × 40 5/8 in.); Framed: 112.4 × 118.8 × 9.9 cm (44 1/4 × 46 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)

Place

France

Period

17th century

Themes

Dogs · Mothers and children · Work and rural life

Main colour

Brown · lightness 29, colourfulness 11

Art Institute of Chicago, Robert A. Waller Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules