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Rooms, windows and quiet light

Interiors

Rooms and the people in them. Vermeer’s young woman opening a window, one hand on a pitcher, his maid asleep at the table, de Hooch’s card players in a pool of yellow light, Gabriel at Mary’s red bed in Memling’s Annunciation, Guardi’s masked gamblers in a Venetian hall, Madame Charpentier and her children with their dog, and Hammershøi’s empty room in moonlight. From Bruges, Delft and Venice, Paris and Copenhagen, and one room from Edo Japan.

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Madame Théodore Gobillard (Yves Morisot, 1838–1893) Edgar Degas, 1869 Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Unknown artist, ca. 50–40 BCE Night Rain at the Double-Shelf Stand, from the series Eight Parlor Views (Zashiki hakkei) Suzuki Harunobu, ca. 1766 Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting Pieter de Hooch, ca. 1663–65 Sulking Edgar Degas, ca. 1870 The Annunciation Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi), ca. 1490 The Yellow Room James McNeill Whistler, ca. 1883–84 The Annunciation Hans Memling, 1480–89 Roman Interior Jean Honoré Fragonard, ca. 1760 The Marriage Feast at Cana Juan de Flandes, ca. 1497 Grandmother's Treasure Jozef Israëls The Antechamber of the Sala del Maggior Consiglio Francesco Guardi, ca. 1765–68 Prayer in the Mosque Jean-Léon Gérôme, by 1874 Moonlight, Strandgade 30 Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1900–1906 Aretino in the Studio of Tintoretto Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1848 The New Bonnet Francis William Edmonds, 1858 Curiosity Gerard ter Borch the Younger, ca. 1660–62 Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895) Auguste Renoir, 1878 For the Little One William Merritt Chase, ca. 1896 The Annunciation Joos van Cleve, ca. 1525 Broken Eggs Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756 Christ Appearing to His Mother Juan de Flandes, ca. 1496 The Temptation Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca), 1746 Sophie Købke (later Sophie Krohn, 1807–1853), the Artist's Sister, in the Hall at Kastellet Christen Købke, ca. 1830 Conversation Piece Lilly Martin Spencer, ca. 1851–52 A Young Woman at Her Toilet with a Maid Gerard ter Borch the Younger, ca. 1650–51 Masquerade Ball Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta, 1909 The Ridotto Pubblico at Palazzo Dandolo Francesco Guardi, ca. 1765–68 The Net Mender (Garnbinderen) Christian Krohg, 1879 The Raffle (Raffling for the Goose) William Sidney Mount, 1837 Paying the Hostess Pieter de Hooch, ca. 1670 The Letter Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca), 1746 Interior of a Kitchen Willem Kalf, ca. 1642–44 The Visit Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca), 1746 A Couple Playing Cards, with a Serving Woman Pieter de Hooch, ca. 1665–75 Young Woman with a Water Pitcher Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1662 Allegory of the Catholic Faith Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1670–72 A Maid Asleep Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1656–57 Young Woman with a Lute Johannes Vermeer, ca. 1662–63 Young Woman Peeling Apples Nicolaes Maes, ca. 1655 Interior with a Young Couple Pieter de Hooch, probably ca. 1662–65 The Lacemaker Nicolaes Maes, ca. 1656 The Visit Pieter de Hooch, ca. 1657 Woman with a Water Pitcher, and a Man by a Bed Pieter de Hooch, ca. 1667–70