It is part of the collection of the Amsterdam Museum, on loan to the Rijksmuseum.

This painting by Hooch showing a woman delousing a child's hair was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:71.

She wears a red blouse and blue skirt, and is de-lousing her daughter's hair who kneels before her with her head in her lap.

Behind her is an elevated, recessed bed with curtains; a child's chair stands in the right foreground.

This painting seems to have been a successful design for De Hooch as there are several variations on the subject of this bedroom and its doorway outside: This article about a seventeenth-century painting is a stub.