The Old Lacemaker (c. 1655) is an oil-on-panel painting by the Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes.

It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Mauritshuis.

An old woman with spectacles, facing the spectator, sits making lace.

"[1] The 1836 sale was at Christie's lot 60, and the buyer was Colemna.

[2] In 1994 it came on the market again and the museum was able to purchase it with support from VSB Fonds Den Haag, Vereniging Rembrandt, and Vrienden van het Mauritshuis.