Pieter de Hooch

Dutch · 1629–1684

BaroqueDutch Golden Age painting

de Hooch, was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway.

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The Bedroom — The living window: art moves here the way it moves in your living room.

works in the Momentable archive: 3works in the Momentable archive
museum holds them: 1museum holds them
life: 1629–1684life
movement: Baroquemovement

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The Bedroom

Pieter de Hooch · National Gallery of Art

The Greeting

Pieter de Hooch · National Gallery of Art

A Dutch Courtyard

Pieter de Hooch · National Gallery of Art

Who Pieter de Hooch was

Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch, 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.

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