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Pieter de Hooch

1629 - 1684

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Pieter de Hooch (Dutch: [ˈpitər də ɦoːx], also spelled "Hoogh" or "Hooghe"; 20 December 1629 (baptized) – after 1683, was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pieter de Hooch has received more than 247,215 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Pieter de Hooch is the 174th most popular painter (up from 186th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 63rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Dutch Painter.

Pieter de Hooch was a Dutch painter who is most famous for his paintings of interiors.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Pieter de Hooch ranks 174 out of 1,421. Before him are Maurice de Vlaminck, Gerhard Richter, Carl Larsson, Gerda Wegener, Gustave Caillebotte, and Henry Fuseli. After him are Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Petrus Christus, Emil Nolde, Angelica Kauffman, Saskia van Uylenburgh, and Agostino Carracci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1629, Pieter de Hooch ranks 4. Before him are Christiaan Huygens, John III Sobieski, and Alexis of Russia. After him are Balthasar Charles, Prince of Asturias, Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Gabriël Metsu, John of Austria the Younger, Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, Narai, Adolph John I, Count Palatine of Kleeburg, and Charles II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat. Among people deceased in 1684, Pieter de Hooch ranks 2. Before him is Pierre Corneille. After him are Edme Mariotte, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Nicola Amati, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Josefa de Óbidos, Anne Gonzaga, Karl Eusebius, Prince of Liechtenstein, Antoine Gombaud, Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Saxony, and Johann Rosenmüller.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Pieter de Hooch ranks 54 out of 1,427. Before him are Theo van Doesburg (1883), Jacob van Ruisdael (1628), Frank Rijkaard (1962), Christiaan Eijkman (1858), Han van Meegeren (1889), and Ronald Koeman (1963). After him are Dick Advocaat (1947), Sylvia Kristel (1952), William II, Prince of Orange (1626), Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612), Ruud Gullit (1962), and Rem Koolhaas (1944).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Pieter de Hooch ranks 10. Before him are Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1525), Piet Mondrian (1872), Hieronymus Bosch (1450), Jan Steen (1626), Jacob van Ruisdael (1628), and Han van Meegeren (1889). After him are Saskia van Uylenburgh (1612), Theo van Gogh (1857), Dieric Bouts (1415), Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836), Carel Fabritius (1622), and Gerard van Honthorst (1592).

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