Woman Lacing Her Bodice Beside a Cradle

Woman lacing her bodice beside a cradle is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, created c. 1660–1663.

This was the third painting by Hooch documented by the Dutch art historian and museum curator Cornelis Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:3.

Behind her, on the left, in a panelled recess, is a four-post bed with a blue and white striped curtain.

On the extreme right, under a high window, the lower half of which is closed with shutters, stands a table with a candle-stick and a jug.

An open door on the right leads into an ante-room where a young girl is standing before the half-open house-door, through which the sunshine streams in.