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Interior with Women beside a Linen Cupboard
Also titled Binnenhuis met vrouwen bij een linnenkast
Pieter de Hooch (Rotterdam, 1629–in o)
1663
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 70 cm x width 75.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
The sun lights up the canal houses outside, while in the darker interior a girl plays ‘kolf,’ a kind of hockey. Two women stack freshly pressed linen in a closet. The linen cupboard had an important place in the home. The lady of the house carried its key with her and ‘handed out the sheets’: she called the shots and was in charge of the household.
