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PIETER DE HOOCH (ROTTERDAM 1629-IN OR AFTER 1684 AMSTERDAM)

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Lot 37 | PIETER DE HOOCH (ROTTERDAM 1629-IN OR AFTER 1684 AMSTERDAM)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
PIETER DE HOOCH (ROTTERDAM 1629-IN OR AFTER 1684 AMSTERDAM)
Interior of a Dutch house
signed and dated ‘P· d· Hoogh / A 168[6]’ (lower left)
oil on canvas
22 ¾ x 27 3/8 in. (57.7 x 69.5 cm.)




Provenance

Anonymous sale; Jolles and de Winter, Amsterdam, 23 May 1764, lot 179 (f 24 to van der Schley).
Jean-Jacques Marie Meffre (d. 1865), Paris; his sale, Pillet, Paris, 9-10 March 1863, lot 43, as dated ‘1656’ (FF 4,950).
Comte de Bearnetz, Paris; his sale, Oudart, Paris, 12 February 1869, lot 17, as dated ‘1656’ (FF 1,200).
Bernier de Passy, Paris; his sale, Pillet, Paris, 5 May 1874, lot 23, as dated ‘1656’ (FF 2,500).
Josef Ritter von Lippmann-Lissingen (1827-1900), Vienna; his sale, Pillet, Paris, 16 March 1876, lot 25, as dated ‘1656’ (FF 4,000).
Étienne Martin, Baron de Beurnonville (1825-1906), Paris; his sale, Pillet, Paris, 11 May 1881 (=3rd day), lot 337, as dated ‘1656’, where acquired for FF 7,200 by,
Alfred Walcher Ritter von Molthein (1867-1928), Vienna.
Anonymous sale [Prince of Liechtenstein, Vienna(?)]; Chevallier, Paris, 16 May 1882, lot 23, as dated ‘1656’, where acquired for FF 4,800 by the following,
with Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, where acquired on 26 January 1886 by the following,
with Colnaghi, London.
David P. Sellar (1833-1901), London; his sale, Chevallier, Paris, 6 June 1889, lot 42, as dated ‘1656’, where acquired for FF 6,000 by the following,
with Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, where acquired by the following,
with Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York.
with Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1898, as dated ‘1656’.
Susan Cornelia Warren, née Clarke (1825-1901), Boston; her deceased sale, American Art Association, New York, 9 January 1903, lot 97 (=2nd day), as dated ‘1656’, where acquired for $3,500 by,
Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York, on behalf of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.



Literature

A. de Lostalot, ‘Collection de M.J. de Lissingen,’ Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XIII, March 1876, p. 492, as dated ‘1656’.
E.E., ‘Die Galerie Lippmann-Lissingen,’ Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, XI, 1876, pp. 217-218, as dated ‘1656’.
H. Havard, ‘Pieter de Hooch,’ in L’Art et les artistes hollandaise, III, Paris, 1880, pp. 105-106, as dated ‘1656’.
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, I, Vienna and Leipzig, 1906, p. 717, as dated ‘1656’.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, I, London, 1908, pp. 488-489 and 568, no. 40, as dating from ‘certainly later’ than 1656.
J. de Wolf Addison, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1910, pp. 70-71.
L. Munson Bryant, What Pictures to see in America, New York, 1915, pp. 31-32, fig. 4.
A. de Rudder, Pieter de Hooch et son oeuvre, Brussels and Paris, 1914, p. 98.
A. Fairbanks, Catalogue of Paintings, Boston, 1921, p. 52, no. 121, as dated ‘1656’.
C.H. Collins Baker, Masters of Painting: Pieter de Hooch, London, 1925, p. 4, as dating from ‘much later than 1656’.
C. Brière-Misme, ‘Tableaux inédits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch,’ Gazette des Beaux-Arts, LXIX, no. 16, July-August 1927, p. 266.
W.R. Valentiner, ‘Pieter de Hooch: Part Two,’ Art in America, XV, 1927, p. 77, no. 30.
W.R. Valentiner, Pieter de Hooch: Des Meisters Gemälde: Klassiker der Kunst, Berlin and Leipzig, 1929, pp. 122, 283 and 284, illustrated, as dated to ‘c. 1670-5'.
W.G. Constable, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings in Oil, Tempera and Pastel, Boston, 1955, p. 32.
S. Slive, ‘Pieter de Hooch,’ in European Paintings in the Collection of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, 1974, p. 109, under note 3, as dated ‘1688’.
P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Ph.D. dissertation, 1978, I, pp. 169-170, no. 142; II, p. 52, illustrated.
M. Green, The Mount Vernon Street Warrens: A Boston Story, 1860-1910, New York, 1989, p. 39.
P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford, 1980, pp. 114-115, no. 140, pl. 143.
A.R. Murphy, European Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue, Boston, 1985, p. 134, illustrated.
R. Benson, ‘Transparenz und Verhüllung / Transparency and Velation,’ Daidalos, XXXIII, 15 September 1989, n.p., illustrated.
A. Scala, Pieter de Hooch, Paris, 1991, p. 109, no. 145.
N.J. Hall, ed., Colnaghi in America: A Survey to Commemorate the First Decade of Colnaghi New York, New York, 1992, n.p.
R. Baer, The Poetry of Everyday Life: Dutch Painting in Boston, exhibition catalogue, Boston, 2002, p. 25, illustrated.



Exhibited

Boston, Boston Art Students’ Association, Loan exhibition of one hundred masterpieces: Copley Hall, 5 March-28 March 1897, no. 43.
Hempstead, Hofstra University Art Museum, People at Work: Seventeenth Century Dutch Art, 17 April-15 June 1988, no. 8.
Milwaukee, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Leonaert Bramer (1596-1674): A Painter of the Night, 3 December 1992-28 February 1993, no. 69.
Delft, Gemeente Musea, 1 March 1993-1 March 1995, on loan.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Dutch Interiors in the Age of Vermeer, 19 November 2003-22 February 2004.
Rimini, Castel Sismondo, Da Rembrandt a Gauguin a Picasso: L’incanto della pittura, 10 October 2009-14 March 2010, no. 37, as dated ‘circa 1680’.
Tokyo, Mori Arts Center Gallery and Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, European Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 17 April-29 August 2010, no. 33.



Engraved

Charles Bernard de Billy, circa 1889.
Artist:Pieter de Hooch (1629 - 1684)
Applied technique:Oil on canvas
Genre:Genre art
Place of origin:Western Europe, The Netherlands
Auction house category:Paintings
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