
Property from a Dutch Private Collection
A mother with an infant and an older child, and a maid carrying a pail, in an interior
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July 1, 07:41 PM GMT
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120,000 - 180,000 GBP
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Property from a Dutch Private Collection
Pieter de Hooch
Rotterdam 1629–1684
A mother with an infant and an older child, and a maid carrying a pail, in an interior
oil on canvas
unframed: 83.8 x 81.6 cm.; 33 x 32⅛ in.
framed: 99.5 x 97.2 cm.; 39⅛ x 38¼ in.
Transferred in 1804 from the Residenz of the Kurfürstbischoff, Würzburg, to Schleissheim, then in the possession of the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen at the Königliche Gemäldegalerie, Schleissheim;
Given in exchange to Eduard Plietzsch, Berlin, 1936;
Dr. Bolzani, Berlin, 1936;
Possibly with Fritz Nathan, Zurich, 1954 (according to a mount at the RKD);
Anonymous sale (‘The Property of a Gentleman’), Sotheby's, London, 12 December 2002, lot 35;
With Johnny van Haeften, London;
Anonymous sale, London, Christies, 8 December 2006, lot 177;
Where acquired.
Dordrecht, Dordrechts Museum, De kunst van het opvoeden, 28 April – 15 September 2013.
G. Parthey, Deutscher Bildersaal. Verzeichniss der in Deutschland vorhandenen Oelbilder verstorbener Maler aller Schulen, vol. I, Berlin 1863, p. 623, no. 13;
C. Hofstede de Groot, 'Proeve kritische beschrijving van het werk van Pieter de Hooch', in Oud Holland, vol. X, no. 3, 1892, p. 187, no. 82;
A. von Wurzbach, Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon, vol. I, Vienna 1906, p. 717;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné…, vol. I, London 1907, p. 489, no. 42;
C. Brière-Misme, 'Tableaux inédits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, November 1927, p. 284;
H. van der Burchs, Pieter de Hooch. Des Meisters Gemälde. Klassiker der Kunst, Berlin and Leipzig 1929, p. 287, reproduced p. 157;
P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford 1980, p. 111, no. 125, reproduced pl. 128;
W. Franits, 'Genre Painting', in The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age, H.J. Helmers and G.H. Janssen (eds), Cambridge 2018, pp. 272–73 and 283–84, reproduced p. 273, fig. 14.3.