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Woman and Maid in a Courtyard st
Painting ID:: 7634
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HOOCH, Pieter de
Woman and Maid in a Courtyard st
c. 1660
Oil on canvas, 73,7 x 62,6 cm
National Gallery, London
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Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1684
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, |
