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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 th…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/41A2
- http://iconclass.org/41A771
- http://iconclass.org/31D11222
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/41A2
- http://iconclass.org/41A771
- http://iconclass.org/31D11222
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- c.1656 - c.1660
Place-Time
- third quarter 17th century
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.8770
- SK-A-182
Extent
- height 65 cm
- width 60.5 cm
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:14:07.335Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:26.796Z