Pieter de Hooch · 1658

The Courtyard of a House in Delft

Name: The Courtyard of a House in Delft by Pieter de Hooch
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SKU: hooch-courtyard-delft
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A Dutch mother and child in an autumn courtyard, brick walls warming in the late light — de Hooch's intimate domestic poem. National Gallery, London.

Up to 20 × 24 in · portrait

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

About this painting

The story of The Courtyard of a House in Delft

The Courtyard of a House in Delft is a 1658 oil painting by Pieter de Hooch, located in the National Gallery, London. The painting is considered typical of de Hooch's middle period, in which he painted detailed portrayals of Dutch domestic architecture and courtyards. The painting is signed and dated "P.D.H. / A 1658" on the archway to the left.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the artist

Pieter de Hooch

Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch, was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style. De Hooch was first recorded in Delft on 5 August 1652, when he and another painter, Hendrick van der Burgh witnessed the signing of a will. He was last documented in 1679, but his date of death is unknown.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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