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Woman with a Child in a Pantry  1656

by Pieter de Hooch

Pieter de Hooch worked in Delft for a few years at the same time as Johannes Vermeer. Both artists were [br]fascinated by how to render light and space. Here, De Hooch represented a space by means of two ‘throughviews’ (glimpses through doorways or windows): one into the cellar, the other into the entrance hall. He depicted the daylight with the lightest of paint, namely p...
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Courtesy of Rijksmuseum