The stepmother (title on object), A dining room with figures around a table. On the right a richly dressed woman and child. Opposite them three soberly dressed gentlemen. A man serves them. On the right in the background a child eating from a pan. On the left a clerk with glasses. Scene from the comic strip De Stiefmoer by Thomas Asselyn from 1684, in which the character Jochem receives the poor family of his second wife. His own child has to lick the pot, while his second wife and her family get the tastiest food., Comedy, giving food, eating and drinking, dining room, Jacob Houbraken (mentio

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