Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the shadow of Vermeer

Museum Prinsenhof Delft 

11 October 2019 to 16 February 2020

The first retrospective exhibition in the Netherlands of the famous 17th-century painter Pieter de Hooch will be presented at the Museum Prinsenhof Delft from 11 October 2019 to 16 February 2020. The exhibition, Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the shadow of Vermeer is the first retrospective of the artist’s work in his own country. After Vermeer, Pieter de Hooch is widely considered to be the most celebrated Delft master of the 17th century. The paintings De Hooch produced in Delft (ca. 1652-1660) will be at the heart of the exhibition: his most beautiful courtyards and interiors will return to the city where they were painted almost 400 years ago.   

    
29 works will be coming to Delft on loan from leading museums in Europe and the United States. These include many famous paintings never before exhibited in the Netherlands such as the well-known  




Courtyard of a House in Delft from the National Gallery, London. Other Pieter de Hooch masterpieces will come from Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, the Kunsthaus Zürich and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

 Pieter de Hooch (1629- in or after 1679), Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room, 1658. The Royal Collection / HM Queen Elizabeth II 2019. 

An extraordinary work on loan from the Royal Collection of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is the masterpiece Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room. In addition, the exhibition will comprise works on loan from the Mauritshuis, the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, the Amsterdam Museum and of course the Rijksmuseum, which holds one of the largest collections of De Hoochs in the world. 



Pieter de Hooch, A Woman and Child in a Bleaching Ground, 1657-1659, © Rothschild Collection (Waddesdon), Photographer Mike Fear

Pieter de Hooch (1629- in or after 1679), Woman Weighing Gold and Silver Coins, ca. 1664 (detail). "SMB, Gemäldegalerie. Property of Kaiser Friedrich Museumsvereins. Photo Jörg P. Anders.