Example sentences for: delft

How can you use “delft” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Born in 1629 in Rotterdam, de Hooch apprenticed himself to a Haarlem landscapist called Nicolaes Berchem before making his way to Delft around 1652.

  • A slim-waisted woman, closely resembling the figure down the corridor in A Courtyard in Delft , raises her cup to two men, one of whom pretends to play a fiddle with two pipes.

  • The pottery style we now know as Delft (after the city to the southeast of Amsterdam) was produced in potteries all across the country during the Golden Age.

  • In the wonderful A Woman Drinking with Two Men and a Serving Woman (circa 1658), carousers from his drab Rotterdam pictures have entered the finely nuanced space of his Delft interiors.

  • It was in Delft that de Hooch mastered the expressive balance of architectural setting and human character, as in his ambitious A Family in a Courtyard (circa 1657-60).


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