A Woman with a Serving Girl

Pieter de Hooch’s A Woman with a Serving Girl shows a quiet interior scene with a seated woman in a pale gown and a tray of bread on her lap, while a standing servant holds a wicker basket. An open window frames a canal, a bridge, and a distant church spire, creating depth and a view to the outside. The palette combines warm browns and reds with cool blues and grays, and the careful rendering of textiles and light reflects De Hooch’s restrained Dutch genre style.