The 1916 caption reads: “Pieter de Hooch (1629-1677?) Dutch School - "Dutch Interior (Lady Playing Cards before the Fire"). Interieur hollandais. in Louvre. Signed on the base of one of the oclumns supporting the mantelpiece — " Hooch". Painted in oil on canvas. 2 ft in x 2 ft in w.” 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, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style.

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