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Attributed to Pieter de Hooch Rotterdam 1629 - 1684 Amsterdam
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Description
- Pieter de Hooch
- Interior Scene with a Man at a Writing Table
- bears signature and date on crosspiece of table Hooge F 1683
- oil on canvas
Provenance
Lefevre;
His sale, Paris, April 15-16, 1897, no. 247 for 600 frs.;
Haemacher;
His sale, Amsterdam, November 30, 1897, no. 48 (as style of P. de Hooch), for 270 fl.;
With Mos, Arnhem ;
With Goudstikker, 1917;
E. Glückstadt;
His sale, Copenhagen, June 2, 1924, no. 671 to Goudstikker;
Baron Lajos Tornyai, Budapest, circa 1929;
Sale Lord Carew et al., London, June 26, 1957, no. 71, to Dent
Exhibited
The Hague, Goudstikker (cat. no. 5), 1917, no. 24;
Rotterdam, Goudstikker (cat. no. 6), 1917, no. 21;
Amsterdam, Goustikker (cat. no. 7), 1917, no. 25
Rotterdam, Goudstikker (cat. no. 6), 1917, no. 21;
Amsterdam, Goustikker (cat. no. 7), 1917, no. 25
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1908, Vol. I, pp. 523-4, no. 175 (as Pieter de Hooch);
A. de Rudder, Pieter de Hooch, Brussels 1913, p. 36, 93 (as Pieter de Hooch);
K. Lilienfeld, 'Pieter de Hooch', in Thieme & Becker, Allgemeines Kexikon der bildenden Kunst, 58, 1924, pp. 453-4 (as Pieter de Hooch);
C.H. Collins Baker, Masters of Painting, Pieter de Hooch, London 1925, p. 8 (as Pieter de Hooch);
W.R. Valentiner, "Pieter de Hooch, Part One", in Art in America, vol. 15, December 1926, p. 58, no. 2 (as Pieter de Hooch);
C. Brière-Misme, 'Tableaux inédits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch, Parts I-III', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 5e per., 15, November 1927, p. 284 (as Pieter de Hooch);
W. Valentiner, Pieter de Hooch, New York 1930, p. 175, reproduced (as Pieter de Hooch);
C.H. Collins Baker, 'De Hooch or not de Hooch', in Burlington Magazine, 57, 1930, p. 8 (as Pieter de Hooch);
P. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford 1980, p. 119, cat. no. 160, reproduced plate 163 (as Pieter de Hooch)
A. de Rudder, Pieter de Hooch, Brussels 1913, p. 36, 93 (as Pieter de Hooch);
K. Lilienfeld, 'Pieter de Hooch', in Thieme & Becker, Allgemeines Kexikon der bildenden Kunst, 58, 1924, pp. 453-4 (as Pieter de Hooch);
C.H. Collins Baker, Masters of Painting, Pieter de Hooch, London 1925, p. 8 (as Pieter de Hooch);
W.R. Valentiner, "Pieter de Hooch, Part One", in Art in America, vol. 15, December 1926, p. 58, no. 2 (as Pieter de Hooch);
C. Brière-Misme, 'Tableaux inédits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch, Parts I-III', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 5e per., 15, November 1927, p. 284 (as Pieter de Hooch);
W. Valentiner, Pieter de Hooch, New York 1930, p. 175, reproduced (as Pieter de Hooch);
C.H. Collins Baker, 'De Hooch or not de Hooch', in Burlington Magazine, 57, 1930, p. 8 (as Pieter de Hooch);
P. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford 1980, p. 119, cat. no. 160, reproduced plate 163 (as Pieter de Hooch)
Catalogue Note
The present painting is accompanied by a photocertificate from Erik Larsen, dated November 14, 1957, confirming it to be a work by Pieter de Hooch.