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December 20
Woman with a Water-Pitcher, and Man by a Bed, also known as The Maidservant, painted between 1667 and 1670, by Pieter de Hooch (baptized 20 December, 1629; died in 1684); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Here is some intriguing information about this work, from the Met’s website: ‘This picture of the late 1660s was cut down by about seven inches before 1841, eliminating a woman in the bed on the right (described in a sale catalogue of 1785). Two inches were added to the top of the canvas, and the seated man, apparently the woman’s lover, was overpainted at the same time.’

Woman with a Water-Pitcher, and Man by a Bed, also known as The Maidservant, painted between 1667 and 1670, by Pieter de Hooch (baptized 20 December, 1629; died in 1684); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Here is some intriguing information about this work, from the Met’s website:

‘This picture of the late 1660s was cut down by about seven inches before 1841, eliminating a woman in the bed on the right (described in a sale catalogue of 1785). Two inches were added to the top of the canvas, and the seated man, apparently the woman’s lover, was overpainted at the same time.’