Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting
Pieter de Hooch Dutch
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De Hooch depicts a family in a luxurious interior with gilt-leather wallpaper, Chinese porcelain, and a suggestive painting of naked lovers above the cabinet. But the family’s ease and prosperity exist in tension with another scene, glimpsed through the open door on the far right. There, a young man confronts a bearded figure on the threshold, perhaps a wayfarer seeking alms.
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