Интерьер с игроками в карты

Pieter de Hooch painted sunlit Dutch rooms and courtyards where people play cards and drink, close in spirit to his contemporary Vermeer but, at the time, easier to imitate convincingly. Han van Meegeren gave one of these a forged P. de Hooch signature. He painted this interior in Nice around 1938 and sold it in 1941, through dealers, to the Rotterdam shipowner Willem van der Vorm for roughly 220,000 guilders, as a genuine de Hooch. The buyer never suspected. Only after van Meegeren's 1945 arrest and confession did his de Hoochs join his Vermeers on the list of fakes. The painting is now at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, on long-term loan, catalogued plainly as a tavern scene.