The 1916 caption reads: "Pieter de Hooch (1629-1677?) Dutch School - "Dutch Interior (Lady Playing Cards before the Fire"). Interieur hollandais. in Louvre. Signed on the base of one of the oclumns supporting the mantelpiece, "P.D. Hooch". Painted in oil on canvas. 2 ft 2.5 in x 2 ft 6.5 in w." Pieter de Hooch was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style.