Pieter de Hooch, 1670 - Paying the Hostess - fine art print

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The more than 350 years old painting was made by Pieter de Hooch. The 350 year-old version of the work of art has the following size: 37 1/4 x 43 3/4 in (94,6 x 111,1 cm) and was painted with the technique oil on canvas. Nowadays, this piece of art is part of the art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Stuart Borchard and Evelyn B. Metzger, 1958 (public domain). : Gift of Stuart Borchard and Evelyn B. Metzger, 1958. Moreover, alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a side ratio of 1.2 : 1, which implies that the length is 20% longer than the width. The painter Pieter de Hooch was an artist, whose art style was primarily Baroque. The Baroque artist lived for 55 years and was born in 1629 in Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands and passed away in the year 1684 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands.

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The subject of a disputed reckoning is not common in Dutch art, but is found in one of De Hooch’s Delft pictures, dated 1658, and in travelers’ diaries of the time. In this mature work of the artist’s Amsterdam years, the pretty hostess of a country inn explains her method of accounting to a modishly attired customer. The seemingly flirtatious couple is surrounded by skillfully diversified effects of light.

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