Lot Essay
The present picture is a rare seventeenth century copy after de Hooch's picture in the collection of the Marquis of Bute.
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An interior with a soldier paying a servant
Details
Follower of Pieter de Hooch
An interior with a soldier paying a servant
oil on canvas
29.7/8 x 25 in. (75.8 x 63.5 cm.)
In an eighteenth-century English pierced and gilded frame.
An interior with a soldier paying a servant
oil on canvas
29.7/8 x 25 in. (75.8 x 63.5 cm.)
In an eighteenth-century English pierced and gilded frame.
Provenance
R.A.; sale, Paris, 17 June 1931, lot 70 as 'P. Janssens'.
Major W.H. Trapp, 1942.
Sir William Rook, Wimbledon Common, 1951.
Major W.H. Trapp, 1942.
Sir William Rook, Wimbledon Common, 1951.
Literature
Apollo, 35, February 1942, p. 48, illustrated.
P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford, 1980, p. 81, no. 27d.
P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford, 1980, p. 81, no. 27d.
Sale room notice
Provenance:
(Probably) Crosnier; sale, Paris, 22 May 1855, lot 19, as Pieter de Hooch.
(Probably) François; sale, Paris, 7 Nov. 1860, lot 70, as Attributed to Pieter de Hooch.
(Probably) Anon. sale, Destournières & Vautier, Paris, 20 Feb. 1862, as School of Pieter de Hooch .
(Probably) Anon. sale, Paris, 10 March 1864, lot 72, as Attributed to Pieter de Hooch.
(Probably) Crosnier; sale, Paris, 22 May 1855, lot 19, as Pieter de Hooch.
(Probably) François; sale, Paris, 7 Nov. 1860, lot 70, as Attributed to Pieter de Hooch.
(Probably) Anon. sale, Destournières & Vautier, Paris, 20 Feb. 1862, as School of Pieter de Hooch .
(Probably) Anon. sale, Paris, 10 March 1864, lot 72, as Attributed to Pieter de Hooch.