DETAILS
- Artist
- Pieter de Hooch
- Date
- 1642
- Location
- Department of Paintings of the Louvre
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THE ARTIST
Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch, a Dutch Golden Age painter, transformed everyday domestic scenes into masterpieces of light and perspective, often featuring an open doorway.
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