Pieter de HoochPaesi Bassi, 1629–1684The Asparagus Vendor
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Minneapolis, Stati Uniti
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Pieter de Hooch’s clients preferred contemporary domestic scenes, which expressed the values of an increasingly prosperous Dutch middle class. In this picture, the family’s wealth is reflected in several details. The mistress of the house, outfitted in fine fabrics and baroque pearls, welcomes a shopkeeper delivering fresh white asparagus—always a delicacy. She turns to speak to her husband, dressed in a rich red kimono—visual evidence of the Dutch East India Trading Company’s access to Japanese culture. Note also the large kast, or wardrobe, draped with a sheet to protect the fine furniture from scratches.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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Nella vita di Pieter de Hooch
Tutta la vita1660–1679 · Luogo di lavoro
Amsterdam
1674
Drops out of the tax registers
De Hooch stopped paying taxes — apparently because of poverty. Trying to escape want, he painted more and larger pictures — nearly half his works date from his last 15 years of activity — but his late works fall short of those of the 1660s.
1679
His son Pieter is committed to the madhouse
The registration of his son, Pieter Pietersz. de Hooch, at the Amsterdam madhouse is the last record of the artist. It was long believed that De Hooch himself died there in 1684, but that was his son; the painter's date of death is unknown.
