You can see the light as definitely surreal and artificial in this painting. Pieter de Hooch: Unlike Dou, de Hooch's works resembled Vermeer's rather than Rembrandt's. He was also noted for his small-scale scenes of bourgeois life. Many of them were outdoors, or he used the artificial light that was so common among painters of the time...
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He preferred to paint rooms opening into other rooms or to the outdoors because he loved to play with lighting effects, and his skills were advanced enough to handle this. Like Dou, the warm, subtle colors do show a touch of the influence of Rembrandt. This painting is from 1658; de Hooch had made a switch at this point from outdoor to indoor scenes after beginning his family...
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