Nursing Mother (New Model)

Seated in a chair, the woman bends her head toward the baby carried on her left arm. The child, in a blue shift, lies across her lap and holds the gown with both hands. Her yellow dress is painted with large pink poppies and scattered small posies, with grey-and-white ruching at the collar and shoulders. A pink slipper shows beneath the layered frilled hem, and a blue mark within a gilt cartouche sits on the side of the base.