# Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting, in Pieter de Hooch

Pieter de Hooch painted this in about 1663–65, aged about 31. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1663–65
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Extended canvas 22 15/16 x 27 5/16 in. (58.3 x 69.4 cm); original visible painted surface 21 5/8 x 26 in. (55 x 66 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.1.144
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Pieter de Hooch](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/pieter-de-hooch), Dutch, 1629–1684

De Hooch was born in Rotterdam and trained, according to an early biographer, with Nicolaes Berchem in Haarlem.

3 works in the collection.

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