according to Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684), Picture, approx. 39 x 51 cm, 56 colours, 9 stitches/1 cm, Gobelin with petit-point-section
Pieter de Hooch was born as the son of a bricklayer in Rotterdam. Together with Jan Vermeer van Delft he is considered the best painter of interiors. De Hooch preferred to describe the silence, the intimacy and the homely in his paintings. The works created in Delft reflect the bourgeois life and at the same time show the painter's interest in the exact reproduction of space. Pieter de Hooch was inventive in his ever new interpretations of this basic theme. When he settled in Amsterdam in 1660, however, the artist's creative power quickly waned. The majority of these late pictures are dark and dull in colour and indistinct in their spatial representation.
