Pieter de Hooch

Illustration number 1001172108
Dimensions: 535x650 pixels
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Illustration number 0000210781
Dimensions: 2715x3128 pixels
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Object information

Current attribution: Pieter de Hooch
as such in cat. sale Fonthill Abbey, 1823-10-10
Rejected attribution: Johannes Vermeer
as such in sale The Hague, 1780 and later sales prior to 1823

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: c. 1664 (1664)

Sutton 1980, Sutton 1998, Jansen et al. 2019; c. 1659-1662 (according to E. Schavemaker, 2014)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Vrouw met een weegschaal
Other (former) title Other title(s) or name(s) which the work of art has had, or by which it is also known. This sometimes involves rejected identifications of the subject or sitter.: De goudweegster
English title: Woman with a pair of scales
Genre: genre
Keywords: genre, one human figure, interior view, knee-length portrait, standing (position), young woman, home jacket, headcloths, scale (weighing device), coin, chair, oriental tablecloth, window, gilt leather hanging, doorway, background view of another room (interior)

Artistically related

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

inspired by
Gabriel Metsu, Jonge vrouw die munten weegt
Correspondent are the subject and the use of a single, knee-length figure (Waiboer 2012, p. 47).
related to
Johannes Vermeer, Vrouw met een weegschaal
The subject corresponds, as well as the use of a single half-length figure, the figure type and the composition (Liedtke 2008, p. 118); Vermeer probably drew inspiration from De Hooch (Broos et al. 1995; Jansen et al. 2019)

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection William Thomas Beckford, Fonthill Abbey (estate) , inv./cat.nr 28
- 1823-10-10 sold
art dealer
Paris
1847 - 1910 between 1847 and 1910
Gemäldegalerie (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Berlin , inv./cat.nr 1041B
acquired by the Kaiser Friedrich Museumsverein
1910 -

Auction(s)

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

120 Beroemde schilderijen uit het Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum te Berlijn Rijksmuseum Amsterdam , Amsterdam (city) , 1950-06-17 - 1950-09-17 , cat. no. 58 ill. 99

Literature

Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 1 (1907), p. 500, no. 96; p. 591, no. 9a
Valentiner 1929 , p. 75, 277
Sutton 1980 , p. 96, no. 64 , color ill. xiv
Wheelock 1981 (Vermeer) , p. 108
Wheelock 1995A , p. 101-102
Broos et al. 1995 , p. 143
Kersten/Lokin/Plomp 1996 , p. 205-206
Sutton 1998 , p. 52-55, color ill. 56
Liedtke 2000 , p. 235
Liedtke et al. 2001 , p. 384
Vergara/Westermann 2003 , p. 123-124, no. 14
Franits 2006 , p. 30-32
Lindemann 2008 , p. 102, no. 32
Wieseman/Franits/Chapman 2011 , p. 89
Waiboer et al. 2017 , p. 188-191, no. 14.1
Jansen et al. 2019 , no. 21 , with provenance and literature

W. von Bode, ‘Jan Vermeer und Pieter de Hooch als Konkurrenten’, Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussichen Kunstsammlungen 32 (1911), p. 1-2

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001172108)
, Original location BD/RKD/0568 - ONS/Genre: De Hooch and School (img.nr. 0000210781)

Creation date: 2014-11-25; Last modified date: 2022-07-05

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