Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684)

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Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684)

A maid serving officers in a stable

signed lower left P de hoogh f, oil on panel
51.9 x 46 cm

Provenance

N. Katz ( ); Sale, Galerie Charpentier Paris, 7 December 1950, lot 34, with ill. (sold ffr. 70.000)
Anon. Sale, Palais Galleria Paris, 20 June 1961, lot 75, with ill.
Victor Lyon, Paris
Anon. Sale, Ader Picard Tajan Paris, 28 March 1979, lot 171, with ill.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, from whom acquired by the .... present owner

Literature

P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, 1980, p. 70, no. 9, fig. 10, where dated circa 1650/55

Lot Essay

As pointed out by Peter Sutton (op.cit, p. 12), the present lot belongs to a group of about 11 works executed in the early period of the artist's career between 1650 and 1655. In these works De Hooch was influenced by the guardroom interiors by, among others, Pieter Codde and Anthonie Palamedesz. The pose of the woman holding the jug by the window corresponds with the figure in the picture in the Galleria Borghese, Rome (Sutton, op.cit, no. 10, fig. 8)

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