# A Dutch Courtyard [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOOCH, Pieter de]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 70 x 60 cm ## Commentary Two soldiers and a maid share a glass of beer in a picturesque courtyard; the tower of the Oude Kerk in the background locates the scene in Delft. The conviviality of the occasion is evident from the relaxed poses and expressions, their closeness to each other, their use of a single tall beer glass meant for passing around. In the period from about 1657 until 1660, when De Hooch gradually refined his mature style in Delft, he produced several pairs of closely related pictures, in at least two instances straightforward replicas of a composition. There is an autograph replica of this picture in the Mauritshuis, The Hague. ## Related artworks - [A Couple Playing Cards, with a Serving Woman]() - [A Dutch Courtyard \(detail\)]() - [A Woman and Two Men in an Arbour]() - [A Woman Drinking with Two Men]() - [A Woman Nursing an Infant with a Child and a Dog]() - [A Woman with a Baby in Her Lap, and a Small Child]() - [At the Linen Closet]() - [Card Players at a Table]() - [Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room]() - [Company Making Music]() - [Couple with Parrot]() - [Figures Drinking in a Courtyard]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()