Painting ID:: 7615
Couple with Parrot sg 1668
Oil on canvas, 73 x 62 cm
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
HOOCH, Pieter de Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1684
Dutch painter. He was one of the most accomplished 17th-century Dutch genre painters, excelling in the depiction of highly ordered interiors with domestic themes and merry companies and pioneering the depiction of genre scenes set in a sunlit courtyard. The hallmarks of his art are an unequalled responsiveness to subtle effects of daylight, and views to adjoining spaces, either through a doorway or a window, Couple with Parrot sg 1668
Oil on canvas, 73 x 62 cm
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
