Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Pieter de Hooch at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Woman with Children in an Interior, ca.1658-60
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Woman and a Maid With a Pail, ca.1660
A Soldier offering a Woman a Glass of Wine, ca.1653
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
A Mistress and Her Maid
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy, 1660
Kress Foundation Collection NEW!
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
Woman with Children in an Interior, ca.1658-60
Pieter de Hooch at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Card Players in an Opulent Interior, ca.1663-65
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague NEW!
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Pieter de Hooch at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
5 works by Pieter de Hooch online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Paintings collection online
Pieter de Hooch at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
3 works by Pieter de Hooch
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Pieter de Hooch at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
4 works online
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Rijksmuseum Research Database, Amsterdam (in Dutch) 
6 works by Pieter de Hooch online
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Akademie der Bildenden Künst, Vienna (in German)
Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Amsterdam (in Dutch) NEW!
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Fondation Bemberg Museum, Toulouse, France
Couple jouant de la musique
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "H"
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French) NEW!
Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Pieter de Hooch in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig (in German)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(Tip: On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
2 works by Pieter de Hooch online
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Joyeuse compagnie
Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany ( in German)
The Kremer Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands NEW!
Collection of paintings based at the Mauritshuis
The Wallace Collection, London, UK
A Boy Bringing Bread, ca.1650-65
A Woman Peeling Apples, ca.1663
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Pieter de Hooch in the Art Renewal Center
Pieter de Hooch in the Artchive
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
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CGFA
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Artpx
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)
Artyzm
California State University WorldImages Database
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Painting from a 2008-2009 exhibition
Olga's Gallery
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site NEW!
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 173
Artarchiv Sample Artist Symbols + Monograms
Scroll down to monogram 489
Christie's
The Courtyard of a House in Delft
Delft Artists and Patrons
The Modernist Journals Project
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Pieter de Hooch 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 44): Pieter de Hooch
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization)
"Drama in Details," article by Souren Melikian
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Slate Magazine
"Values, Shmalues: Don't mistake Pieter de Hooch for a stodgy moralist," article by Christopher Benfey
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: At Last, After 300 Years, De Hooch Has a Solo Show
Time Magazine
"Visionary Homebody", 1999 article by Robert Hughes
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