The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

Hoet began his career in Zaltbommel, near Utrecht, the pupil of his father, who was a painter in the style of Cornelis Poelenburg. In 1672, in the face of approaching war, he fled to The Hague, but soon moved to Paris where he stayed for a year. There, like Grard de Lairesse, he was heavily influenced by the French academic tradition. Following his return to the United Provinces, Hoet worked in Utrecht and The Hague, specialising in cabinet-sized Arcadian landscapes with mythological or Biblical scenes.