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Follower of Pieter de Hooch
An interior with a woman and her maid
Details
Follower of Pieter de Hooch
An interior with a woman and her maid
with signature 'NMaeS' (NM linked, lower right)
oil on canvas
61 x 51 cm.
Provenance
Anon. Sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 8 May 1995, lot 12.
Special notice
Christie's charges a Buyer's premium calculated at 23.205% of the hammer price for each lot with a value up to €110,000. If the hammer price of a lot exceeds €110,000 then the premium for the lot is calculated at 23.205% of the first €110,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of €110,000. Buyer's Premium is calculated on this basis for each lot individually
Lot Essay
The pose of the two women may have been inspired by the painting by De Hooch in the Boijmans-Van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam (see P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, 1980, p. 105, no. 101, fig. 104).