Wonderful.
Pieter de Hooch moved from Delft to Amsterdam around 1660-61, so this masterpieces is from the outset of his Amsterdam period (so, still Delft-influenced).
It’s the classic theme of Dutch virtue in genre paintings - a polite/industrious boy, with a basket of bread, offering some to a respectable lady standing in the doorway of her perfect & orderly home.
As always with de Hooch, a technical tour de force.
Beautiful way the light & shadow interact with both people.
Skirt’s red-orange silky vividness greatly contrasts with her black velvet jacket.
The doorkijkje technique of nested spaces that draw the viewer deeper into the painting.
A distant female figure - perhaps the boy’s mother?
Incredible window, with the stained glass windows and the yellow curtains filtering the light softly.
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