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Date : 1658
Sizes : 60 cm x 73 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Bought with the collection of Sir Robert Peel (1871)
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Flemish and Northern Painting
Painting
Area related
Delft (Neitherlands)
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The tablet above the archway was originally over the entrance to the Hieronymusdale Cloister in Delft. It translates: "This is in Saint Jerome's vale, if you wish to withdraw to patience and meekness. For we must first descend if we wish to be raised". De Hooch is best known for his Delft-period paintings of orderly interiors and sunny courtyards.
Signed and dated at the base of the archway: P.D.H./An[n]o 1658.
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