Costumbres populares; madre; piojo; hijo; peinar; Mauritshuis; siglo XVII; Borch - History Lab https://historylab.es Wed, 18 May 2022 15:27:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Costumbres populares; madre; piojo; hijo; peinar; Mauritshuis; siglo XVII; Borch - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Mother combing her daughter’s hair or hunting for nits https://historylab.es/mother-combing-her-daughters-hair-or-hunting-for-nits/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mother-combing-her-daughters-hair-or-hunting-for-nits Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:31:53 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/madre-peinando-a-su-hija-o-a-la-caza-de-la-liendre/ Everyday scene where a mother combs her daughter's hair to protect it from parasites

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]]> A mother carefully combs her child’s hair for lice. However, the child finds himself thinking stoically during the inspection. Ter Borch painted many of these genre scenes in which the main characters are absorbed for the duration of the action. In this sense, The Lice Hunt contains a moral, as tidiness and cleanliness were the ideal qualities of a good housewife. In the 17th century, the lice comb represented both a clean appearance and a pure character.

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