Pieter de Hooch

baroque

Pieter de Hooch Paintings 1629 - 1684 Painter, Draftsman, Holland, Dutch Baroque

The Card Players, 1663

Oil on canvas, 77x67 cm

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OIL PAINTING: The Card Players, 1663
In the period between 1654 and 1665, when de Hooch was living in Delft, he created such paintings as The Card-Players, leaning heavily on the influence of Vermeer and the Rembrandt student Carel Fabritius. Although a certain tendency towards sumptuous interiors and elegant society is already evident here, the compositional organization is charming, and the architecture of the room with its checkerboard tiles heightening the sense of depth and perspective, is rendered with painstaking precision.
When de Hooch moved to Amsterdam in I667 where he moved in high circles, his interiors became increasingly elegant, and his simple "households" were gradually replaced by palatial interiors. At the same time, the portrayal began to lose its precision and the vitality of the Dutch genre painting began to fade. His paintings also began to lose the strong colour values so aptly described by Eugene Fromentin, a 19th century painter a