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Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid
Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid (1665-1668) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Amsterdam Museum.
This painting was the second painting by Hooch documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote; "2. MOTHER WITH A CHILD AND A CHAMBERMAID. Sm. 31 and Suppl. 12 ; deG. 4. To the left,
widow of Prince Mirko of Montenegro, himself a brother-in-law of the King of Italy. As a child, Countess Valentina had been educated with the twin sons of a chambermaid of her mother: they were rumored to be the illegitimate sons of her father and one of them would become the father of Hergé, creator of Tintin.
Sforza and his wife had a daughter, Fiammetta (Beijing 3 October 1914 – 2002), who married Howard Scott ("a divorced father-of-two non-