Pieter de Hooch, (artist), Dutch, 1629 - 1684, A Dutch Courtyard, 1658/1660, oil on canvas, overall: x 60 cm (27 3/8 x 23 5/8 in.), framed: x x cm (36 1/2 x 33 x 4 3/4 in.), Pieter de Hooch worked in the small and relatively quiet city of Delft from 1652 to about 1660. Like other Delft artists, most notably Carel Fabritius and Johannes Vermeer, De Hooch painted everyday scenes that are remarkable for their clarity of perspective and harmony of light. He gave order to his compositions by emphasizing the geometry of architectural elements

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Keywords: 1629, 1658, 1660, 1684, canvas, courtyard, de, dutch, hooch, oil, pieter