Pieter de Hooch

Pieter de Hooch is a key figure of the Delft school of Dutch Golden Age painting, celebrated for calm domestic interiors and courtyard scenes built on poised light and careful perspective. His canvases and panels typically place small groups of figures within tidy rooms, passages and gardens, and the same quiet observation runs through the seven works gathered here. Oil on canvas dominates the group, with a smaller pair of oil on wood paintings, and the sheets date from 1657 to 1670, with impressions up to that later year. Together they range from intimate couple scenes such as Interior with a Young Couple to social encounters like Paying the Hostess and A Woman and Two Men in an Arbor.

7 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

The Visit

ca. 1657 · Oil on wood

A Woman and Two Men in an Arbor

ca. 1657–58 · Oil on wood

Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting

ca. 1663–65 · Oil on canvas

A Couple Playing Cards, with a Serving Woman

ca. 1665–75 · Oil on canvas

Woman with a Water Pitcher, and a Man by a Bed

ca. 1667–70 · Oil on canvas

Paying the Hostess

ca. 1670 · Oil on canvas

Interior with a Young Couple

probably ca. 1662–65 · Oil on canvas