Woman Giving Money to a Servant-Girl

Woman Giving Money to a Servant-Girl (c. 1668–1672) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch.

In a well-furnished room sits a lady with an embroidery-pillow on her lap; she gives money from her purse to a servant-girl, who carries a market-pail.

She wears a red jacket trimmed with fur and a skirt of the same colour; on her lap lies an embroidery-cushion.

By the open window to the right is a table with a cloth, upon which are placed a mug and a glass on a silver tray.

On the wall above the fireplace hang a landscape with Venus and Cupid, and a mirror in which the picture is reflected.

[2]The same child can be seen in de Hooch's Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot and in Teaching a Child to Walk: The subject of a woman giving a coin to a servant was copied by Michiel van Musscher: In the 20th century the painting came into the hands of the New York dealer Knoedler and was purchased in 1927 by Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch, and by their legacy it came into the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum in 1944 with the inventory number M.44.2.8, but the museum deacquisitioned it in 2009.