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PIETER DE HOOCH (ROTTERDAM 1629-IN OR AFTER 1679 AMSTERDAM)

Lot 5
24.05.2023 16:00UTC -05:00
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ID 945201
Lot 5 | PIETER DE HOOCH (ROTTERDAM 1629-IN OR AFTER 1679 AMSTERDAM)
Estimate value
$ 120 000 – 180 000
PIETER DE HOOCH (ROTTERDAM 1629-IN OR AFTER 1679 AMSTERDAM)

An interior scene with a woman playing a lute and a man playing a violin

oil on canvas

26 x 23 1/4 in. (66 x 59.1 cm.)





Provenance

Anonymous sale; Holland, 1788, no. 12 (f 20) (according to Hofstede de Groot).

(Probably) Anonymous sale; van der Schley a.o., Amsterdam, 10 June 1789, lot 12 (f 20 to Bogaard).

John Christoph Werther, Amsterdam; (†) his sale, van der Schley a.o., Amsterdam, 25 April 1792, lot 76.

Marquess of Stafford (according to Goldsmith sale).

Cardinal Fesch (1763-1839), Rome (according to Goldsmith sale).

Goldsmith, et al.; Phillips, London, 26 February 1856, lot 61.

with P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1888.

Dr. Martin Schubart, Dresden, by 1889; (†) his sale, Hugo Helbing, Munich, 23 October 1899, lot 32, as on panel (9,100 DM to Bovery).

[Property of an Educational Institution]; Sotheby’s, New York, 15 January 1993, lot 106, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

A. Bredius, ‘Die Ausstellung alter Gemälde aus Sächsischem Privatbesitz in Leipzig’, Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, I, 1890, p. 132.

F. Schlie, ‘Leipzig. Ausstellung älterer Meister aus sächsischem Privatbesitz’, Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, XIII, 1890, p. 159.

C. Hofstede de Groot, 'Proeve kritische beschrijving van het werk van Pieter de Hooch', Oud Holland, X, 1892, p. 185, no. 65.

T. Frimmel, ‘Die Galerie Schubart in München’, Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, V, 1894, p. 218.

C. Hofstede de Groot, Sammlung Schubart, Munich, c. 1895, pp. 39-40, 52, illustrated.

C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, 1907, p. 522, no. 171.

C. Brière-Misme, ‘Tableaux inédits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch’, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1927, p. 276.

W.R. Valentiner, Pieter de Hooch, Stuttgart, 1929, p. 285, no. 137.

P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford, 1980, p. 114, no. 138, plate 141.



Exhibited

Leipzig, Leipziger Kunstverein, Einundzwanzigste Sonderausstellung älter Meister aus sächsischem Privatbesitz, 1889, no. 118.

Munich, Königliche Kunstausstellungspalast, June-July 1895, no. 26.



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This lot is offered without reserve.
Artist:Pieter de Hooch (1629 - 1684)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Genre art
Place of origin:Western Europe, Europe, The Netherlands
Auction house category:Paintings
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