# Soldiers Playing Cards [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOOCH, Pieter de]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on panel, 51 x 46 cm ## Commentary This painting is related to Vermeer's <A onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/v/vermeer/02b/08offic.html'\)" HREF="/html/v/vermeer/02b/08offic.html">Officer with a Laughing Girl.</A> Some critics think that De Hooch's design is derived from Vermeer's picture, while others assume the opposite and see Vermeer as the debtor. However, the design is rather conventional and both painters may have drawn the idea from many sources. The painting is signed left on the chair back: P.D.H. ## Related artworks - [A Couple Playing Cards, with a Serving Woman]() - [A Dutch Courtyard \(detail\)]() - [A Dutch Courtyard]() - [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]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()