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Article: Pieter de Hooch.(exhibit at Wadsworth Atheneum)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- December 1, 1998
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Pieter de Hooch has long been revered as one of the most important figures in the artistic environment of Holland's golden age, but inexplicably he has never been the subject of a retrospective exhibition until now. A show entitled Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684 opens at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut, on December 17 and remains on view until February 28, 1999. This is the only American venue for this exhibition, which was previously seen at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. The director of the Atheneum, Peter C. Sutton, who earlier compiled the catalogue raisonne of this artist's work, is the curator of the exhibition, which is sponsored by United ...
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