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| Pieter de Hooch Courtyard in Delft at Evening - a Woman Spinning ca. 1656 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Pieter de Hooch The Visit 1657 oil on panel Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| Pieter de Hooch Woman with a Child in a Pantry 1658 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Pieter de Hooch Card Players in a Sunlit Room 1658 oil on canvas Royal Collection, Great Britain |
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| Pieter de Hooch Courtyard of a House in Delft 1658 oil on canvas National Gallery, London |
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| Pieter de Hooch A Mother's Duty (Delousing her Child) ca. 1658-60 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Pieter de Hooch Dutch Courtyard ca. 1658-60 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Pieter de Hooch Boy bringing Bread ca. 1663 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Pieter de Hooch Woman peeling Apples ca. 1663 oil on canvas Wallace Collection, London |
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| Pieter de Hooch Portrait of a Family making Music 1663 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Pieter de Hooch Figures in a Garden ca. 1663-65 oil on canvas Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Pieter de Hooch The Intruder - A Lady at her Toilette surprised by her Lover 1665 oil on canvas Wellington Collection, Apsley House, London |
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| Pieter de Hooch Skittle Players in a Garden 1665 oil on canvas National Trust, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire |
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| Pieter de Hooch Young Woman receiving a Letter 1669 oil on canvas Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
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| Pieter de Hooch Man reading a Letter to a Woman ca. 1670-74 oil on canvas Kremer Collection, Amsterdam |
"Between about 1655 and 1662, De Hooch's work rose to the very highest level of achievement. Almost all his paintings from these years depict interiors or courtyards containing just a few people, engaged either in domestic activities or in some restrained form of entertainment or merrymaking. The atmosphere of these works is characteristically calm, spacious, and airy, effects created through De Hooch's masterly control of light, color, and complex perspectival construction. These are also essential elements of the style of Johannes Vermeer, with whom he must have had contact. By the end of the 1660s De Hooch's work had lost much of its delicacy and finesse. His later compositions became grander and more contrived, and his color harmonies and light effects harsher."
– from the biographical sketch at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC