Maternity room of a prominent Turkish woman, Jean Baptiste Vanmour, between 1720 and 1737

Maternity visitors are received in the home of a wealthy family. Coffee is being made on the stove in the middle and on the left a slave is already making sorbet. After these refreshments, the visitors receive rose water to wash their hands from a sprinkler and perfume from a kind of atomizer. The canvases hanging on the walls are gifts from the maternity visit. Collection: paintings; vanmour series. Object Type: painting. Date: between 1720 and 1737. Dimensions: doek Height: 55.5 cm (21.8 in) doek Width: 90 cm (35.4 in) geheel Gewicht: 5.6 kg (12.3 lb). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Rijksmuseum. Kraamkamer van een voorname Turkse vrouw Rijksmuseum SK-A-2003