Artist
Pieter de Hooch
Dutch, 1629–1684
Pieter de Hooch was a Dutch Dutch Golden Age painter. 51 works are cataloged here, principally at Rijksmuseum, most of them oil paintings. Pieter de Hooch was born in Rotterdam.
Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch (Dutch:; also spelled Hoogh or Hooghe; bapt. 20 December 1629 – after 1683), was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style.
De Hooch was first recorded in Delft on 5 August 1652, when he and another painter, Hendrick van der Burgh witnessed the signing of a will. He was last documented in 1679, but his date of death is unknown (his son Pieter died in 1684, a date often wrongly given for the father).
Works by Pieter de Hooch
A Woman and Two Men in an Arbor
Woman with a Water Pitcher, and a Man by a Bed ("The Maidservant")
Interior with a Young Couple
Officer paying a woman in a stable
The Visit
A Dutch Courtyard
Outside the Tavern
A Mother's Duty
Merry Company with five figures
Woman and Child in a Courtyard
The Greeting
The Bedroom
A Housewife Instructing her Maid
Portrait of a Family Playing Music
Merry Company in a Hall
Een gezelschap op de plaats achter een huis
Woman nursing by a cradle with a dog at her feet
Portrait of a family making music
Self-portrait
Woman with a Child in a Pantry
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