HOOCH, Pieter de 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, Mother Lacing Her Bodice beside a Cradle s 1659-60
Oil on canvas, 92 x 100 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin
