The Courtyard of a House in Delft

A woman with her broom and a small girl pause in a paved courtyard, with a canal and the tower of the Nieuwe Kerk glimpsed through the passage beyond. De Hooch, alongside Vermeer, was one of the great masters of the Delft interior, and his courtyard scenes — with their careful play of light through doorways and across brick — capture the quiet geometry of Dutch domestic life.