Pieter de Hooch. December 20, 1629 – 1684

A Woman Drinking with Two Men, and a Serving Woman, ca. 1658

Pieter De Hooch (duh hoke) was a Dutch painter. His father was a bricklayer and there were five children in Pieter's family. He married and had a large family also. He and his wife had seven children. Some of his early paintings were scenes of soldiers and taverns, but after he had a family, he began to paint pictures of families and scenes inside homes. In many of his pictures you can see into other rooms, or you can see what is outside the window. He liked to paint pictures that showed a lot of light in them. In the painting, Woman Peeling Apples, is such a scene. The sunlight is streaming through the window. Sometimes the light would be coming from another source. You can observe elaborate tile floors in several of his works. He died at the age of 55 in an insane asylum.		Pieter de Hooch (duh Hoke) fue un pintor neerlandés. Su padre era albañil y había cinco niños en la familia de Pieter. Se casó y él y su esposa tuvieron siete hijos. Algunas de sus primeras pinturas eran escenas de soldados y tabernas, pero después de que él tuvo una familia, empezó a pintar cuadros de las familias y las escenas dentro de las casas. En muchos de sus cuadros se puede ver en otras habitaciones, o se puede ver lo que está fuera de la ventana. Le gustaba pintar cuadros que mostraban una gran cantidad de luz en ellos. Murió a la edad de 55 años en un manicomio. fuente: www.gardenofpraise.com