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

Woman and Her Maid

c. 1657
Oil on canvas, 53 x 42 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

One of Pieter de Hooch's innovations was the inclusion of adjoining rooms or a street, which makes his paintings full of air. It is assumed that the model of the maid in this painting was the painter's wife.