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A Woman and Two Men in an Arbour
A Woman and Two Men in an Arbour (1657) is an oil on panel painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch; it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Description.
This painting by Hooch was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote; "306. Man and Woman in an Arbour. To the right are a man and a woman in an arbour. He is seated,
seen in contempraneous works including "A Woman Drinking with Two Men" (1658), and the woman in black and red can be seen in "A Boy Bringing Bread" (1663). A similar composition with the same doorway can be seen in the "Courtyard with an Arbour", also dated 1658, which sold at Christie's in London in December 1992 for £4.4 million.
There are some subtle effects that are at variance with the overall impression of harmony. The brickwork of the wall on the