The Visit to the Nursery, 1661, Oil on canvas, 30 1/2 x 32 in. (77. 5 x 81. 3 cm), Paintings, Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, Leiden 1629?1667 Amsterdam), In an impressively appointed room, modeled on a large chamber in the new Town Hall of Amsterdam, the parents of a newborn baby receive a fashionable well-wisher. Such a kraambezoek (cradle visit) was a minor ritual of polite society