Mauritshuis restores an obscured soldier in a Pieter de Hooch courtyard scene
Conservators used a reversible treatment to reintroduce a soldier who had been painted out of a Pieter de Hooch courtyard scene. They drew on a surviving version at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The Mauritshuis retitled its painting Figures in a Courtyard. The image shows the work before treatment.
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