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Elsbeth is seated on a bench with her daughter on her lap and her hand resting on her son's right shoulder. On the bench the numbers 152(…) can be seen in the lower right of the painting. The last number has been cut off the painting, as have the fingertips of the left hand of the girl. It is painted on three horizontally glued paper strips, with the two on the right being much broader than the one on the left. The boy's body and face are depicted in profile, the mother is painted from the front. While the mother doesn't seem to be gazing at anything specific, the boy is looking at something to the upper right. The mother's head is covered by a bonnet which is itself covered by a transparent veil with a fine black border. The right hand of the mother seems to be incomplete. The girl faces left and seems to grasp something with her left hand, which was probably on the piece cut away to the right.