Pieter de Hooch (Rotterdam 1629-1684)

An interior with two gentlemen and a woman beside a fire

Details

Pieter de Hooch (Rotterdam 1629-1684)
An interior with two gentlemen and a woman beside a fire
signed 'P D HOOGH.' (on the chimney piece)
oil on canvas
17 x 20 in. (43.7 x 52.7 cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale [E.H. Gwilt], Christie's, London, 4 May 1945, lot 36 (700 gns. to Agnew).
with Agnew's (June-July 1948, no. 20).
Gilbert H. Edgar; Christie's, London, 14 December 1962, lot 128 (750 gns. to Nicholls).
with P. & N. de Boer, Amsterdam.
with The Brod Gallery, London, from whom acquired by the father of the present owner.

Literature

P. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford, 1980, p. 112, no. 127, fig. 130.

Lot Essay

Dated by Sutton (loc. cit.) circa 1675-1680, the present picture is a rare example of a nocturnal scene by the artist. Sutton also points out that the model who served for the mustachioed soldier on the far side of the table also appears in de Hooch's Officer paying a woman in a stable, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and in his Serving woman and an officer at Saltram, Plympton (National Trust, op. cit., nos. 111 and 126, pls. 114 and 129).

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