# Couple with Parrot [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOOCH, Pieter de]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 73 x 62 cm ## Commentary Pieter de Hooch's painting belongs to the 'haute-bourgeois' genre. Through an anteroom we see a tidy living room with an elegantly clothed couple. The man is opening the cage with the parrot and the woman is enticing the bird out with a wine glass. These are clearly erotic symbols which indicate that the young woman is about to be seduced into an affair. ## 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]() - [Figures Drinking in a Courtyard]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()