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

A Woman and Two Men in an Arbour

1657-58
Oil on wood, 44 x 38 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

This minor work by Pieter de Hooch represents a transitional phase between his tavern scenes of the early 1650s and his domestic interiors and courtyard views of about 1658 onward.