Baroque and Rococo
Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch
(bapt Rotterdam, 20 Dec 1629; bur Amsterdam, 24 March 1684).
Dutch painter. He was one of the most accomplished 17th-century Dutch genre painters, excelling in the depiction of highly ordered interiors with domestic themes and merry companies and pioneering the depiction of genre scenes set in a sunlit courtyard. The hallmarks of his art are an unequalled responsiveness to subtle effects of daylight, and views to adjoining spaces, either through a doorway or a window, offering spatial as well as psychological release.
Woman Nursing an
Infant
1658-60
oil on canvas
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Woman and Maid
c. 1657
Oil on canvas, 53 x 42 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
