Interior with a Young Couple
Pieter de Hooch
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗
- Accession
- 14.40.613
- Credit
- Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
- Rights
Public domain: the artist died in 1684. The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 through its Open Access programme.
- Description
- A Dutch interior seen through a series of rooms: a man sits and a woman stands by a bright window in the middle distance, a small dog crosses the tiled floor, and open doorways lead the eye back into further rooms and light.
- Image
- 1600 × 1415
source file retrieved 2026-10-11 - Catalogue no.
- G-009028
coldlibrary.com/g/009028 - Credit line
- Pieter de Hooch, Interior with a Young Couple, probably c. 1662–65. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain (CC0). Via Cold Library: https://coldlibrary.com/g/009028
De Hooch’s speciality was the view through: one room opening into another and another, each with its own light. The couple is almost secondary; the real subject is the house and the way daylight passes through it. A library is built the same way, room after room, each opening onto the next.
