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A Couple Playing Cards, with a Serving Woman
Interior with a Young Couple
Woman with a Water Pitcher, and a Man by a Bed ("The Maidservant")
Paying the Hostess
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This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 636
Like his contemporary Johannes Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch played a pioneering role in the advancement of genre painting in seventeenth century Holland. He was especially gifted as a painter of interiors--complex spatial arrangements stunningly beautiful in the manipulation of light. The Lehman picture is richly decorated with a marble floor and gilt-leather wall coverings, articulated by diffuse light from the window at left. The merry dialogue in the near ground is foiled by the mysterious encounter of a young man and elderly bearded figure in the antechamber and vestibule. De Hooch achieves extraordinary clarity and geometry in this grandly furnished chamber, qualities evocative of paintings he made in Amsterdam in the 1660s.
Inscription: Signed (on stretcher of chair): P. D. HOOCH
Probably Everill collection; Samuel S. Joseph, London by 1892; Mrs. Joseph, by 1907; [M. Knoedler and Co., London and New York], June 1911 (bought from Mrs. Joseph). Acquired by Philip Lehman from Knoedler in 1912.
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