Interior with a Young Couple
by HOOCH, Pieter de, Oil on canvas, 55 x 63 cm
The compositional type with an open doorway, an interior window with a curtain, an enclosed bed, and a receding wall with a window to one side, was employed by Pieter de Hooch in several paintings dating from about 1658-60. This painting is one of the artist’s most insistently rectilinear designs, in which even the figures and the dog appear to have been assigned specific places.