The 1916 caption reads: "Pieter de Hooch 1629-1677 Dutch School "Dutch interior, with Two Cavaliers and the Girl in the Red Skirt". in National Gallery. Signed P. D. H. on the table in the left foreground by the window. Painted in oil on canvas. 2 ft 5 in h x 2 ft 1 in w." Pieter de Hooch was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style.