In many of his pictures one part is lighted from the sunlit street, and another from a closed court.
Sometimes his figures stand in an open courtyard, whilst behind is a paved passage leading into the house.

All his subjects are of the domestic Dutch life of the seventeenth century, but the arrangement in rooms, passages, courtyards, and enclosed gardens admitted of much variation.

We never feel that the range of subjects is limited, for the light transforms each into a scene of that poetic beauty which it was Peter de Hoogh's great gift to discern, enjoy, and record.
The painting is delicate and finished, meant to be seen from near at hand.

It is always the room that interests him, as much as the people in it.

The painting of the window with its little coats of arms, transparent yet diffusing the light, is exquisitely done.