The children's book of art . hind is a pavedpassage leading into the house. All his subjectsare of the domestic Dutch life of the seventeenthcentury, but the arrangement in rooms, passages,courtyards, and enclosed gardens admitted of muchvariation. We never feel that the range of subjectsis limited, for the light transforms each into ascene of that poetic beauty which it was Peter deHooghs great gift to discern, enjoy, and record. The painting is delicate and finished, meant tobe seen from near at hand. It is always the roomthat interests him, as much as the people in painting of the wi
The children's book of art . hind is a pavedpassage leading into the house. All his subjectsare of the domestic Dutch life of the seventeenthcentury, but the arrangement in rooms, passages,courtyards, and enclosed gardens admitted of muchvariation. We never feel that the range of subjectsis limited, for the light transforms each into ascene of that poetic beauty which it was Peter deHooghs great gift to discern, enjoy, and record. The painting is delicate and finished, meant tobe seen from near at hand. It is always the roomthat interests him, as much as the people in painting of the window with its little coats ofarms, transparent yet diffusing the light, is ex-quisitely done. A chair with the cushion upon it,just like that, occurs again and again in his pictures,the cushion being used as a welcome bit of colourin the scheme. Most of all, the floors, whetherpaved with stone as in this picture, or with brickas in the courtyards, are painted with the delight-ful precise care that the Van Eycks gave to their. An the picture by Pieter de Hoogh, in the Wallace Collection, London. PETER DE HOOGH AND CUYP 137 accessories. In Peter de Hooghs vision of theworld there is the same appreciation of the objectsof daily use as was displayed by the fifteenth-century Flemish painters whenever their sacredsubjects gave them opportunity. In the seven-teenth century it was more congenial to the Flemishand Dutch temperament to paint their own country,and domestic scenes from their own lives, thanpictures of devotion. Other artists besides Peter de Hoogh paintedpeople in their own houses. In the pictures ofTerborch ladies in satin dresses play the spinetand the guitar. Jan Steen depicted peasantsrevelling on their holidays or in taverns. Peterde Hoogh was the painter of middle-class life,and discovered in its circumstances, likewise,abounding romance. The Dutchman of the seventeenth centuryloved his house and his garden, and every inch ofthe country in which he live
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