Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting
{{Short description|Painting by Pieter de Hooch}}
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| title = Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting
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| artist = Pieter de Hooch
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| year = {{circa}} 1663–1665
| material = Oil on canvas
| height_metric = 58.3
| width_metric = 69.4
| city = New York
| museum = Metropolitan Museum of Art
| accession = 1975.1.144
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Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting is a painting by Dutch artist Pieter de Hooch, created c. 1663–1665. Done in oil on canvas, the painting depicts the interior of a Dutch home and two distinct conversations taking place. Leisure is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.
Description
A noted painter during the Dutch Golden Age, Pieter de Hooch was especially skilled in the rendering of interior scenes. This skill can be seen in Leisure's richly decorated rooms, gilt-leather wall coverings and use of lighting. The painting also plays with the varying nature of conversations – showing a jovial, well-lit conversation (left) and a more mysterious conversation (right).{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting|url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459086?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&what=Paintings&high=on&showOnly=openAccess&ft=paintings&offset=0&rpp=80&pos=67|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-08-27|website=www.metmuseum.org}}
The painting was donated to the Met as part of the Robert Lehman Collection in 1975, and remains in the collection of the museum.{{Cite book|last1=Sterling|first1=Charles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7BU-36sK16MC&q=Leisure+time|title=Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-century European Paintings|last2=Collection|first2=Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY Robert Lehman|last3=Collection|first3=Metropolitan Museum of Art Robert Lehman|date=1998|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-0-87099-881-2|language=en}}
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