# Peasant Family at a Well

**The Master of the Children's Caps** (Le Maître aux Béguins; French, 17th century)  
1650/60  
Oil on canvas  
97.5 × 103.2 cm (38 3/8 × 40 5/8 in.); Framed: 112.4 × 118.8 × 9.9 cm (44 1/4 × 46 3/4 × 3 7/8 in.)

Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1923.415. [The museum's record](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/8606).

## About this work

The Master of the Children's Caps painted this in 1650/60. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

### What you’re looking at

A work made of oil on canvas.

_Description from the Art Institute of Chicago._

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

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Le Maître aux Béguins; French, 17th century

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: France
- Real size: about 38 × 41 in (97 × 103 cm). The 30 × 40 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 17th century
- Subjects: family, women, woman with children, woman, water, trees, sons, poverty
- Colour: grey
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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