Pieter de Hooch | |
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![]() Possible self-portrait (1648–1649?) | |
Born | Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch 20 December 1629 |
Died | After 1683 |
Nationality | Dutch |
Education | Nicolaes Berchem |
Known for | Painting |
Movement | Dutch Golden Age Baroque Delft School |
Spouse |
Jannetje van der Burch
(m. 1654; died 1667) |
Children | 7, including Pieter Pietersz. de Hooch |
Pieter de Hooch (Dutch: [ˈpitər də ɦoːx], also spelled "Hoogh" or "Hooghe"; 20 December 1629 (baptised) – 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]