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Woman with a Child in a Pantry

Pieter de Hooch worked in Delft for a few years at the same time as Johannes Vermeer. Both artists were 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 pure white. He thus created the perfect illusion of an interior space.

c. 1656 - c. 1660

Oil on canvas

65.0 x 60.5 cm

SK-A-182

Image and text courtesy of Rijksmuseum, 2019

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