# Paying the Hostess

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## Artwork

- Artist: [HOOCH, Pieter de](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hooch-pieter-de-re726ca48bc7836>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 71 x 64 cm

## Commentary

The subject of this painting is a disagreement about getting out the door without paying enough. The old soldier looks at the maidservant wearily; she holds up a coin and in no uncertain terms asks for another. Both figures appear to have performed this ritual many times before, and it must have been its routine occurrence that made the situation appealing as social comedy.

## Related artworks

- [A Couple Playing Cards, with a Serving Woman](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hooch-pieter-de-re726ca48bc7836/a-couple-playing-cards-with-a-serving-woman-r4bd969dfc7002d>)
- [A Dutch Courtyard \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hooch-pieter-de-re726ca48bc7836/a-dutch-courtyard-detail-r82b90bfa726209>)
- [A Dutch Courtyard](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hooch-pieter-de-re726ca48bc7836/a-dutch-courtyard-r9aea744fc0a5d4>)
- [A Woman and Two Men in an Arbour](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hooch-pieter-de-re726ca48bc7836/a-woman-and-two-men-in-an-arbour-r0f1ec3e543e129>)
- [A Woman Drinking with Two Men](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hooch-pieter-de-re726ca48bc7836/a-woman-drinking-with-two-men-rfb7e98234745d0>)
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- [A Woman with a Baby in Her Lap, and a Small Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hooch-pieter-de-re726ca48bc7836/a-woman-with-a-baby-in-her-lap-and-a-small-child-r7f2de63d074335>)
- [At the Linen Closet](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hooch-pieter-de-re726ca48bc7836/at-the-linen-closet-r8ea34066738c76>)
- [Card Players at a Table](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hooch-pieter-de-re726ca48bc7836/card-players-at-a-table-r00c0d94f351f9b>)
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- [Couple with Parrot](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/hooch-pieter-de-re726ca48bc7836/couple-with-parrot-rcc444d99e37125>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)