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Pieter de Hooch / The empty glass

The empty glass

1652 · Oil on panel

Two men and a woman share a drink in an interior, an early genre painting by Pieter de Hooch.

MovementBBaroque
LocationRotterdam, Netherlands
Genregenre art
Dimensions46 × 37 cm

Why it matters

A woman offers a glass of wine to an officer while others play cards in an inn. It was long catalogued as a work by Gabriel Metsu.

Did you know?

  • It dates from around 1652.
  • It is on panel.
  • It is in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

Based on the Wikipedia article The Empty Glass (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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