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Pieter de Hooch Paying the Hostess Date 1658(1658)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Height: 71 cm (28 in). Width: 64 cm (25.2 in).
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Pieter de Hooch Kartenspieler ca. 1663-1665
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 67 x 77 cm
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Pieter de Hooch Mutter an der Wiege, Detail Date ca. 1661-1663
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Pieter de Hooch Hollandische Familie 1662(1662)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 114 x 97 cm
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Pieter de Hooch At the Linen Closet 1665(1665)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Pieter de Hooch Paying the Hostess 1658(1658)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Pieter de Hooch Soldiers Playing Cards Date English: c. 1657-1658
Medium English: Oil on panel
Dimensions 51 x 46 cm (20.1 x 18.1 in)
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Pieter de Hooch Skittle Players in a Garden c. 1660-68
Medium Oil on canvas
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Pieter de Hooch A woman with a child in a pantry Date c. 1658(1658)
Medium Oil on canvas
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Pieter de Hooch Die Morgentoilette eines jungen Mannes Date 1655-1657
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions 40 x 53 cm
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Pieter de Hooch Paying the Hostess . 1658
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 71 x 64 cm (28 x 25.2 in)
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Pieter de Hooch The Morning of a Young Man second half of 17th century
Medium oil on panel
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Pieter de Hooch Soldiers Playing Cards Oil on panel
Dimensions 51 x 46 cm (20.1 x 18.1 in)
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Pieter de Hooch Hof mit zwei Offizieren und trinkender Frau c. 1658-1660
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 68 x 59 cm
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Pieter de Hooch The Visit 1657
Medium English: Oil on panel
Dimensions 68 x 58 cm (26.8 x 22.8 in)
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Pieter de Hooch Interior with Figures oil on canvas
Dimensions 58 x 69 cm (22.8 x 27.2 in)
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Pieter de Hooch Die Goldwagerin c. 1664(1664)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 61 x 53 cm
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Pieter de Hooch Skittle Players in a Garden 1660-68
Medium oil on canvas
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Pieter de Hooch A woman with a child in a pantry 1658(1658)
Medium oil on canvas
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Pieter de Hooch Woman Peeling Vegetables in the Back Room of a Dutch House circa 1657(1657)
Medium oil on canvas
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Pieter de Hooch
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1629-1684
Dutch
Pieter de Hooch Galleries
De Hooch was born in Rotterdam to Hendrick Hendricksz de Hooch, a bricklayer, and Annetge Pieters, a midwife. He was the eldest of five children and outlived all of his siblings. He studied art in Haarlem under the landscape painter, Nicolaes Berchem. Beginning in 1650, he worked as a painter and servant for a linen-merchant and art collector named Justus de la Grange. His service for the merchant required him to accompany him on his travels to The Hague, Leiden, and Delft, to which he eventually moved. It is likely that de Hooch handed over most of his works to la Grange during this period in exchange for board and other benefits, as this was a common commercial arrangement for painters at the time, and a later inventory recorded that la Grange possessed eleven of his paintings.
De Hooch was married in Delft in 1654 to Jannetje van der Burch, by whom he fathered seven children. While in Delft, de Hooch is also believed to have learned from the painters Carel Fabritius and Nicolaes Maes, who were both early members of the Delft School. He became a member of the painters' guild of Saint Luke in 1655, and had moved to Amsterdam by 1661.
The early work of de Hooch, like most young painters of his time, was mostly composed of scenes of soldiers in stables and taverns, though he used these to develop great skill in light, color, and perspective rather than to explore an interest in the subject matter. After beginning his family in the mid-1650s, he switched his focus to domestic scenes and family portraits. His work showed astute observation of the mundane details of everyday life while also functioning as well-ordered morality tales. These paintings often exhibited a sophisticated and delicate treatment of light similar to those of Vermeer, who lived in Delft at the same time as de Hooch. 19th century art historians had assumed that Vermeer had been influenced by de Hooch's work, but the opposite is now believed.
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