Interior with a Mother Close to a Cradle is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, created c. 1665–1670.

[1] This represents a dark room, partly illumined by sunlight, which streams through the window, and is reflected in the tiles of the floor.

A young mother sits with her little girl on her lap, and points with her left hand to the cradle standing beside her.

The open door gives a clear view of a street beside a canal.

It is almost the same composition as the picture formerly in the Van der Hoop collection (2).