Pieter de Hooch

Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch, self-portrait
Possible self-portrait (1648–1649?)
Born
Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch

before (1629-12-20)20 December 1629
Diedafter 1683 (aged at least 54)
NationalityDutch
EducationNicolaes Berchem
Known forPainting
MovementDutch Golden Age
Baroque
Delft School
Spouse
Jannetje van der Burch
(m. 1654; died 1667)
Children7, including Pieter Pietersz. de Hooch

Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch (Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈɦɛndrɪksoːn ˈɦoːx]; also spelled Hoogh or Hooghe; bapt. 20 December 1629  – after 1683), was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style. De Hooch was first recorded in Delft on 5 August 1652, when he and another painter, Hendrick van der Burgh witnessed the signing of a will.[1] He was active in 1683, but his date of death is unknown (his son Pieter died in 1684, a date often wrongly given for the father).[2][3]

  1. ^ "Artist Info". www.nga.gov. Retrieved 27 October 2023.
  2. ^ "RKD Research". research.rkd.nl. Retrieved 15 May 2024.
  3. ^ Grijzenhout 2008, pp. 612–613.