# Paying the Hostess, in 17th-century Netherlands

Pieter de Hooch painted this in about 1670, aged about 36. It is now at The Met in New York.

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1670
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 37 1/4 x 43 3/4 in. (94.6 x 111.1 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 58.144
- 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.

## Walk on

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