The VisitPieter de Hooch (1629–1684) · ca. 1657The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0) · the museum’s recordscan 3,198 × 3,701 px
A masterwork Dutch Golden Age
The Visit
Pieter de Hooch, 1629–1684, painted ca. 1657
Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and released as Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0). It hangs here as a reference for a hand: paint your own line and the painters copy its brushwork, its palette and its light, and none of its subject.
A print of the scan itself, up to 20 × 30 inches from these 3,198 × 3,701 pixels. Nothing larger, because it would arrive soft.
- What a seed does
- The painting is the instruction. The painters take its handling, its surface and its light. Your line, or your photograph, is the only subject.
- The credit
- Every painting seeded from it carries “after Pieter de Hooch (1629–1684), The Visit, The Metropolitan Museum of Art” on its plaque, and on the share page.
- The licence
- Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it. The scan is served with that credit in its headers, and it is never upscaled.