Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting — Pieter de Hooch | DiscoverArt

Pieter de Hooch

Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting

ca. 1663–65

Oil on canvas

58.3 × 69.4 cm (23 × 27.3 in)

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