Pieter de Hooch

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Pieter de Hooch was a Dutch Golden Age painter renowned for his intimate domestic interior scenes and masterful use of light and perspective.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Dutch Golden Age painter
human
painter
activeInCentury 17th century
artisticFocus courtyards and household spaces
middle-class domestic life
use of doorways and windows to create depth
contemporaryOf Gabriel Metsu
Gerard ter Borch
Johannes Vermeer
countryOfBirth Dutch Republic
countryOfCitizenship Dutch Republic
dateOfBirth 1629
dateOfDeath circa 1684
ethnicGroup Dutch
fieldOfWork genre scenes
painting
genre domestic interior scene
genre painting
interior painting
influenced Johannes Vermeer
influencedBy Carel Fabritius
Rembrandt van Rijn
surface form: Rembrandt
languageOfWorkOrName Dutch
movement Baroque
Dutch Golden Age
name Pieter de Hooch self-link
notableFor intimate domestic interior scenes
masterful use of light
use of linear perspective
notableWork A Dutch Courtyard
A Mother and Child with its Head in her Lap
A Woman Drinking with Two Men
Interior of a Dutch House
Interior with a Woman Weighing Gold Coin
The Bedroom
The Courtyard of a House in Delft
Woman and Child in a Courtyard
numberOfChildren at least 7
occupation painter
placeOfBirth Rotterdam NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Amsterdam
sexOrGender male
spouse Jannetje van der Burch
styleCharacteristic careful rendering of light entering rooms
complex spatial constructions
quiet, orderly domestic scenes
workLocation Amsterdam
Delft NERFINISHED
Rotterdam NERFINISHED

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Guild of Saint Luke (Delft) hasMember Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch name Pieter de Hooch self-link