HOOCH, Pieter de
(b. 1629, Rotterdam, d. 1684, Amsterdam)

The Bedroom

1658-60
Oil on canvas, 50,8 x 61 cm
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe

Hooch's painting depicts a positive ideal of the Dutch household: a clean space for a woman's domestic work, performed before a quiet child and without the interference from men - or animals.