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PIETER DE HOOCH | INTERIOR WITH AN ELEGANT COUPLE PLAYING MUSIC

Auction Closed

May 22, 08:55 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Collection

PIETER DE HOOCH

(Rotterdam 1629 - 1684 Amsterdam)

INTERIOR WITH AN ELEGANT COUPLE PLAYING MUSIC


oil on canvas laid down on board

23 by 17⅞ in.; 58.4 by 45.4 cm.

Oliver Banks, Brooklyn, NY, by 1998;

With Lawrence Steigrad, New York;

Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 28 January 2009, lot 258;

Where acquired.

P. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch 1629 - 1684, London 1998, exhibition catalogue, p. 182, no. 166, reproduced as "Addendum to the 1980 Catalogue Raisonné."

Peter Sutton dates this painting to 1680 or later, during the last period of De Hooch’s career in Amsterdam.