A discarded broom lies next to an empty wooden bucket in the right foreground of one of his best-known works, which shows a maid holding the hand of a young girl on the right and features a sign over an archway that reads, "This is St. Jerome's Vale.
This artist showed a lady using a wine glass to lure a bird out of a cage in a painting symbolic of a woman being seduced. Along with Couple with Parrot, this painter showed a maid angrily holding one silver coin in her right hand and demanding another coin from a soldier in Paying the Hostess, and a lady in a yellow dress squeezes a lemon into her glass while her husband sitting across from her at a wooden table holds a beer in his piece The Village House. In another one of his paintings a classical statue stands over a doorway where a girl plays with a "kolf" stick, while on the left a woman and her maid withdraw cloth from the titular structure. A discarded broom lies next to an empty wooden bucket in the right foreground of one of his best-known works, which shows a maid holding the hand of a young girl on the right and features a sign over an archway that reads, "This is St. Jerome's Vale." Paintings such as At the Linen Closet and The Card-Players were completed after this artist moving to Amsterdam to avoid competition with Vermeer. For 10 points, name this Dutch genre painter of The Courtyard of a House in Delft.
This artist showed a lady using a wine glass to lure a bird out of a cage in a painting symbolic of a woman being seduced.
{Pieter} de {Hooch}