Hooch, Pieter de - Courtyard of a House in Delft (detail) - art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: Courtyard of a House in Delft (detail)
• Artist (if known): Pieter de Hooch (1629-1984)
• Media or other details:  painting
• Publisher / Gallery: National Gallery, London / Medici Soiciety, London
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): 20p Penny Black anniversary 1990
• Size: modern
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Stock No.: A722

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Pieter de Hooch (Dutch: ['pit?r d? ?o?x], also spelled ""Hoogh"" or ""Hooghe""; December 20, 1629 (baptized) – March 24, 1684 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre scenes of quiet domestic scenes with a few figures. He was a contemporary of Jan Vermeer, with whom his work shares themes and style.

De Hooch was born in Rotterdam to Hendrick Hendricksz de Hooch, a bricklayer, and Annetge Pieters, a midwife. He was the eldest of five children and outlived all of his siblings. He studied art in Haarlem under the landscape painter Nicolaes Berchem. Beginning in 1650, he worked as a painter and servant for a linen-merchant and art collector named Justus de la Grange. His service for the merchant required him to accompany him on his travels to The Hague, Leiden, and Delft, to which he eventually moved. It is likely that de Hooch handed over most of his works to la Grange during this period in exchange for board and other benefits, as this was a common commercial arrangement for painters at the time, and a later inventory recorded that la Grange possessed eleven of his paintings.

De Hooch was married in Delft in 1654 to Jannetje van der Burch, by whom he fathered seven children. While in Delft, de Hooch is also believed to have learned from the painters Carel Fabritius and Nicolaes Maes, who were early members of the Delft School. He became a member of the painters' guild of Saint Luke in 1655, and had moved to Amsterdam by 1661.

The early work of de Hooch was mostly composed of scenes of soldiers in stables and taverns, though he used these to develop great skill in light, color, and perspective rather than to explore an interest in the subject matter. After starting his family in the mid-1650s, he switched his focus to domestic scenes, merry company scenes and family portraits. His work showed astute observation of the mundane details of everyday life while also functioning as well-ordered morality tales. These paintings often exhibited a sophisticated and delicate treatment of light similar to those of Vermeer, who lived in Delft at the same time as de Hooch. The motives and compositions are also very similar between the two painters. 19th-century art historians had assumed that Vermeer had been influenced by de Hooch's work, but the opposite is also possible.

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