37,6" PIETER de HOOCH "A Game of Ninepins" painting art printed on canvas
PIETER de HOOCH (1629 - 1684)
Title of artwork: "A Game of Ninepins"
Ready to hang on the wall. Canvas on the wooden underframe. Outer frame are not included!
Year: 1665
Technique: printed on canvas nowadays
Condition: perfect
Diagonal: 37,6" or 95,5 cm.
Size: 25,6" x 27,6" (in) or 65 x 70 cm.
Please note that this is a reproduction printed on canvas.
The size may differ from how it looks in the photo.
Color can be slightly different from the picture.
Pieter de Hooch was a Dutch Golden Age
painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open
doorway. He was a contemporary of Jan Vermeer in the Delft Guild of St. Luke,
with whom his work shares themes and style. De Hooch was born in Rotterdam to
Hendrick Hendricksz de Hooch, a bricklayer, and Annetge Pieters, a midwife. According
to his first biographer Arnold Houbraken, he studied art in Haarlem under the
landscape painter Nicolaes Berchem at the same time as Jacob Ochtervelt and was
known for his "kamergezichten" or "room-views" with ladies
and gentlemen in conversation. But De Hooch's work seems to continue in the
spirit of Hendrik Sorgh, an older Rotterdam painter who had a special affinity
for organizing figures in interiors. Beginning in 1650, he worked as a painter
and servant for a linen-merchant and art collector named Justus de la Grange in
Rotterdam. His service for the merchant required him to accompany him on his
travels to The Hague, Leiden, and Delft, to which he moved in 1652. It is
likely that de Hooch handed over most of his works to la Grange during this
period in exchange for board and other benefits, as this was a common
commercial arrangement for painters at the time, and a later inventory recorded
that la Grange possessed eleven of his paintings.
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