Follower of Pieter de Hooch
PROPERTY OF THE TOLEDO MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND
Follower of Pieter de Hooch

The Bedroom

Details
Follower of Pieter de Hooch
The Bedroom
with signature 'P: D: Hoog' (lower right)
oil on canvas
20 5/8 x 23¾ in. (52.3 x 60.3 cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, England.
with Henry Reinhardt, New York.
Edward Drummond Libbey, 1913-1925, by whom gifted to the Toledo Museum of Art.
Literature
Toledo Museum of Art Children's Museum News, Toledo, no. 6, September 1934, [n.p.], as Pieter de Hooch.
B.M. Godwin, Catalogue of European Paintings in the Toledo Museum, Toledo, 1939, pp. 106-107, as Pieter de Hooch.
Children's Religion, IX, no. 9, September 1948, p. 2, as Pieter de Hooch.
J. Lauts, ed., Holländische meister aus der Staatlichen Kunst halle, Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, 1960, under no. 25, as Pieter de Hooch or possibly an old copy.
'Details, European Paintings,' Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, IV, no. 1, Winter 1961, pp. 4, 21, as Pieter de Hooch.
B.S. Myers, ed., Encyclopedia of Painting, New York, 1963, p. 238, as Pieter de Hooch.
W.G. Constable, Art Collecting in the United States of America: An Outline of History, London, 1964, p. 130, as Pieter de Hooch.
M.D. Schwartz, The Jan Martense Schenck House, Brooklyn Museum Guide to the Collections, 1964, p. 30, fig. 18, as Pieter de Hooch.
J. Lauts, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Katalog Alte Meister bis 1800, Karlsruhe, 1966, p. 152.
O. Wittmann, 'The Golden Age of the Netherlands,' Apollo, LXXXVI, no. 70, December 1967, pp. 466, 469, pl. XIII, as Pieter de Hooch.
'About the Cover,' Toledo Club News, September 1971, p. 1, cover, as Pieter de Hooch.
The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 80-81, pl. 132, as Pieter de Hooch.
J.D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America, New York, 1979, p. 188, as Pieter de Hooch.
P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford, 1980, pp. 87-88, no. 40G(a), as a copy after Pieter de Hooch.
B. Broos, Great Dutch Paintings from America, exhibition catalogue, The Hague, 1990, pp. 106, 304, under no. 35, note 4, as 'a (later?) version after Pieter de Hooch.
Exhibited
St. Louis, City Art Museum, 40 masterpieces; a loan exhibition of paintings from American Museums, 6 Ocotber-10 November 1947, no. 25, as Pieter de Hooch.
Tulsa, Philbrook Art Center, 2 December 1952-January 1953.

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Lot Essay

This work is based on a composition by Pieter de Hooch (1629-1684) that exists in several versions, including those now in the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (inv. 1942.9.33).

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