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Pieter de Hooch Mother Lacing her Bodice Beside a Cradle 1661-63
Gemaldegalerie, Berlin
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Pieter de Hooch Woman and a Maid with a Pail in a Courtyard 1660-65
Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg
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Pieter de Hooch Woman Drinking with Soldiers 1658
Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Pieter de Hooch Woman Nursing an Infant 1658-60
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
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Pieter de Hooch Woman Drinking with Two Men and a Maidservant 1658
National Gallery, London
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Pieter de Hooch Courtyard with an Arbor and Drinkers 1658
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Pieter de Hooch A Woman Drinking with Two Gentlemen) (mk05) 1658 Canvas 27 1/4 x 23 1/2'' (69 x 60 cm)Given in 1974
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Pieter de Hooch The Courtyard of a House in Delft (mk08) 1658
Oil on canvas
73.5x60cm
London,National Gallery
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Pieter de Hooch A Woman and her Maid in a Coutyard (mk08) 1660
Oil on canvas
73.7x62.6
London,National Gallery
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Pieter de Hooch The Card-Players (mk08) c.1663-1665
Oil on canvas.
67x77cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Pieter de Hooch Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room (mk25 1658
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Pieter de Hooch A guardroom interior with an officer smiling and making a toast,together with a flute-player and other soldiers mk56
oil on panel,the reverse stamped with the panelmaker s mark of a star
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Pieter de Hooch The Courtyard of a House in Delft mk86
1658
Oil on canvas
73.5x60cm
London,National Gallery
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Pieter de Hooch A Woman and her Maid in Courtyard mk86
1660
Oil on canvas
73.7x62.6cm
London,National Gallery
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Pieter de Hooch The Card-Players mk86
c.1663-1665
Oil on canvas
67x77cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
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Pieter de Hooch The Countyard of a House in Delf mk156
1658
Oil on canvas
74x60cm
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Pieter de Hooch Mirstress and Maid mk159
c.1660
Oil on canvas
53x42cm
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Pieter de Hooch The linen cupboard MK169
1663 Cloth 73x77.5cm
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Pieter de Hooch An Interior,with a Woman Drinking with Two Men,and a Maidservant mk170
circa 1658
Oil on canva
s73.7x64.6cm
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Pieter de Hooch The Courtyard of a House in Delft mk170
1658
Oil on canvas
73.5x60cm
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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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