ID: 700008128 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008128	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

A Mother Showing Her Weeping Son His Shoe of Switches (drawing (visual work); Cornelis Troost (Dutch, 1696 - 1750) (Dutch Artist); mid-18th century; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2008.33)

Note: Called "the Dutch Hogarth," Cornelis Troost was the most important Dutch artist of the 18th century, and is well-known for his work as a draftsman and for his grand-manner portraits and satirical paintings. In this delightful genre scene, Troost depicts a displeased young boy on the morning of the feast of Saint Nicholas, who, having left his shoe by the fireplace for Sinterklaas, only received switches instead of gifts and candy. The mother of the naughty boy looks knowingly down at her son and offers him instead a plate of pretzels. The subject is based on a painting by the Dutch master Jan Steen (1626 - 1679) in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, in which a family celebrates the feast of Saint Nicholas and some children receive gifts and sweets while a young boy on the left cries at his lack of presents. This drawing, probably done at the request of a collector, was likely executed after a lost painting by Troost, known to us today from a print engraved by Jacob Houbraken. By the 18th century, it was standard practice to produce prints in the same direction as paintings, suggesting that the present sheet is a copy after the painting and not the print. We know that on other occasions, Troost excerpted scenes from his most popular compositions for sale to collectors, such as the case of his drawing of a Drummer Boy, made by the artist after his multi-figured pastel of the Children's Festival. Troost received a large number of commissions during his lifetime and even made multiple copies of his paintings; two versions of The Feast of Saint Nicholas were known to have existed.

Titles:

A Mother Showing Her Weeping Son His Shoe of Switches (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Sinterklaas: A Mother Showing her Weeping Son his Shoe with a Rod (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: mid-18th century

Creator Display:

Cornelis Troost (Dutch, 1696 - 1750) (Dutch Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

Troost, Cornelis (Dutch painter and printmaker, 1696-1750) [500007701]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2008.33

Other: Creation: Nederland [7016845] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Black chalk and gray wash, heightened with white on gray-brown paper

	chalk [300011727]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

	wash (material) [300011051]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: 39.2 x 23.6 cm (15 7/16 x 9 5/16 in.)

Cultures:

Dutch (preferred)

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	family (kinship group) [300055474]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), groups of people, social groups, kinship groups) (AAT)

	crying [300386081]
	.....(Activities Facet, Physical and Mental Activities (hierarchy name), physical activities, <physical activities by specific context>, <personal and passive activities>) (AAT)

	mother [300025932]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by family relationship>, ancestors (family relationships), parents) (AAT)

	son (person) [300154350]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by family relationship>, descendants (family relationships), offspring) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Cornelis Troost 1697 ob 1750 in graphite (verso)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
A Mother Showing Her Weeping Son His Shoe of Switches	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Sinterklaas: A Mother Showing her Weeping Son his Shoe with a Rod	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)