Artists

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  A Woman Drinking with Two Men and a Serving Woman $AU 288.48 ~ 1,206.40
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  A Woman with a Baby in Her Lap and a Small Child $AU 276.37 ~ 1,099.24
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  Figures Drinking in a Courtyard $AU 285.34 ~ 1,178.83
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  Paying the Hostess $AU 291.22 ~ 1,230.65
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  Soldiers Playing Cards $AU 292.62 ~ 1,243.18
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  The Visit $AU 286.62 ~ 1,190.08
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  A Man Offering a Glass of Wine to a Woman $AU 282.73 ~ 1,155.64
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  Two Soldiers and a Serving Woman with a Trumpeter $AU 570.68
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  A Woman and a Servant $AU 277.58 ~ 1,110.00
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  Woman with a Child in a Pantry $AU 484.48
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  The Mother $AU 903.55
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  A Mother's duty $AU 426.40
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  A Dutch Courtyard $AU 287.08 ~ 1,193.87
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  Woman and Maid in a Courtyard $AU 285.18 ~ 1,177.48

Peter de Hooch (1629 Rotterdam-after 1684 Amsterdam) is one of the most important Dutch painter of interior scenes. Around 1647 he was a student of the landscape painter Nicolaes Berchem in Haarlem, and in the 1650s he worked as a painter and servant for a cloth merchant and art collector in Leiden, The Hague, and Delft. At first De Hooch concentrated on scenes depicting inns and guardrooms. Inspired by Carel Fabrizius and Jan Vermeer, however, de Hooch then turned to his famous interior and courtyard scenes in which he depicted everyday bourgeois life in arrangements that resemble still life pantings. After he moved to Amsterdam around 1661 his style underwent a fundamental change. Influenced by French courtly art, he began to portray elegant social groups in splendid rooms and halls. Among the artist's works are At the Cellar Door, c. 1658, Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam, Maid with Child in a Courtyard, 1658, National Gallery, London, and The Cardplayers, c. 1664, Musee du Louvre, Paris.