ID 1358464
Lot 16 | PIETER DE HOOCH (ROTTERDAM 1629-IN OR AFTER 1684 AMSTERDAM)
Estimate value
$ 2 500 000 – 3 500 000
Card players at a table
signed ‘P·d·Hoogh·f·’ (upper left, above the mantel)
oil on canvas
42 ¼ x 36 5/8 in. (107.3 x 93 cm.)
Provenance
Hendrik van Maarseveen (1731-1792), Amsterdam, his deceased sale; Bunel...Ophoven, Amsterdam, 28 October 1793, lot 1, for 165 florins.
Edward Solly (1776-1844), London, his sale; Messrs. Foster & Sons, London, 31 May 1837, lot 77, where acquired for 57 gns. by,
Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803-1890), Penrice House, and by descent to his daughter,
Emily Charlotte Talbot (1840-1918) and by inheritance to her niece,
Evelyn Fletcher (1872-1958), wife of Archibald Douglas-Campbell, 4th Baron Blythswood (1870-1929), and by descent to their grandson,
Christopher Paul Mansel Methuen-Campbell (1928-1998), from whom acquired 15 January 1966 by the below,
with Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, by whom sold 15 January 1966 to the below,
with Wildenstein, London, from whom acquired by the seller at the below,
Anonymous sale; [Property from a Private Collection], Sotheby's, London, 7 July 2004, lot 20, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, I, London, 1908, p. 547, no. 258.
P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford and New York, 1980, pp. 37, 104, no. 96, pl. 99, with incorrect provenance.
P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684, exhibition catalogue, New Haven and London, 1998, pp. 61, 174, no. 38, illustrated.
Exhibited
London, Dulwich Picture Gallery; Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684, 3 September-15 November 1998; 17 December 1998- 27 February 1999, no. 38, with entry by P. Sutton, with incorrect provenance.
Sale Room Notice
Please note the updated provenance for this lot. The painting was inherited by Christopher Paul Mansel Methuen-Campbell (1928-1998) directly from his grandmother, Evelyn Fletcher (1872-1958) and not from his mother, as stated in the printed catalogue.
| Artist: | Pieter de Hooch (1629 - 1684) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Genre: | Genre art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Pieter de Hooch (1629 - 1684) |
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| Applied technique: | Oil on panel |
| Genre: | Genre art |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, The Netherlands |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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