Pieter de Hooch

1629–1684 · Baroque

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.

37 paintings

• Portrait of a Family Playing Music (1663)
• A Courtyard in Delft: a Woman spinning (1650)
• Woman reading a letter and a man at a window (1669)
• Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room (1658)
• Courtyard with a Woman Spinning (1656)
• Teaching a Child to Walk (1670)
• Musical company in a distinguished interior (1675)
• The Fireside (1672)
• The Merry Drinker (1650)
• A Man with a Book and Two Women (1676)
• A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy (1661)
• A Sick Child (1670)
• Nursing Mother, and Child with Serving Maid (1660)
• Card Players in an Opulent Interior (1663)
• Courtyard with a man smoking and a woman drinking (1658)
• Woman with a Water Pitcher, and a Man by a Bed (ca. 1667–70)
• Paying the Hostess (ca. 1670)
• The Visit (ca. 1657)
• A Woman and Two Men in an Arbor (ca. 1657–58)
• Woman and Maid in a Courtyard (1660)
• The Courtyard of a House in Delft (1658)
• The Bedroom (1658/1660)
• The Greeting (c. 1675)
• A Dutch Courtyard (1658/1660)
• Party (1675)
• Soldiers with a Serving Maid in a Barn (1652)
• Bedroom (1659)
• Two women and a child, 'A Mother's Care' (1673)
• Self-portrait (1648)
• Man Handing a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall of a House (1670)
• A Mother's Duty (1660)
• Figures in a Courtyard behind a House (1663)
• Udenfor værtshuset (1644-1683)
• Musicerende selskab (1644-1683)
• Interior with a Woman sewing and a Child (1668)
• Company in an interior eating oysters (1681)
• The Council Chamber in Amsterdam Town Hall (1664)