''The Golf Players'' (1658) is an

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-on-panel painting by the

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painter

Pieter de Hooch Pieter de Hooch (, also spelled "Hoogh" or "Hooghe"; 20 December 1629 (baptized) – 24 March 1684 (buried)) was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary of ...

. It is an example of

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and is part of the collection of

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. The painting was documented by

Hofstede de Groot Cornelis Hofstede de Groot (9 November 1863 – 14 April 1930), was a Dutch art collector, art historian and museum curator. Life He was born in Dwingeloo and spent some time in Switzerland in his youth due to weak lungs, where he learned Germa ...

in 1910, who wrote: "305. The Game of Golf. In an entrance-hall paved with red tiles a little girl carrying a golf-club stands with her hand on the latch of an open door. She looks at a boy who is playing golf in the courtyard. In the distance is a village. Panel, 25 inches by 18 inches. Formerly in the collection of Count von Fries, Vienna. Sales: * Heris of Brussels, in Paris, June 19, 1846, No. 27. * Pierard of Valenciennes, in Paris, March 21, 1860, No. 29. * Sir H. H. Campbell, in London, 1867 (bought in for £63)."entry 305 for ''The Game of Golf''
in Hofstede de Groot, 1910 This painting seems to have been a successful design for de Hooch as there are several variations on the subject of this young girl in the doorway: File:Pieter de Hooch - The Bedroom - Google Art Project.jpg, ''The Bedroom'' (

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) File:Pieter de Hooch - The Bedroom - WGA11695.jpg, ''The Bedroom'' (Karlsruhe) File:Een moeder die het haar van haar kind reinigt, bekend als ‘Moedertaak’ Rijksmuseum SK-C-149.jpeg, ''

A Mother's Duty ''A Mother's Duty'' (1658–1660) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch. It is part of the collection of the Amsterdam Museum, on loan to the Rijksmuseum. Description This painting by Hooch showing a woman delousing a ...

'' (

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''The Golf Players''
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