Pieter de Hooch

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. 1658-1660 (1658 - 1660)

Sutton 1980

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Vrouw die een bed opmaakt en kind in interieur
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.: The bedroom
English title: Woman making up a bed and child in interior
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: genre, interior view, bedroom, two human figures, full-length portrait, woman, child, standing (position), mutche, table, table carpet, ewer (vessel), mirror, window, chair, doorway, background view from inside to outside, painting (depicted), curtain, box bed, chamberpot, stone floor, stoneware

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

Collection(s)

private collection Gooitjen Stinstra, Harlingen
possibly
- 1822-05-22 possibly sold at the 1822 Amsterdam sale
private collection William Waldegrave (1st Baron Radstock)
Castletown, Ireland
- 1826-05-12 sold
private collection George Granville Leveson-Gower (1st Duke of Sutherland), Stafford House (London)
1826-05-12 - 1833
private collection George Granville Leveson-Gower (2nd Duke of Sutherland), Stafford House
1833 - 1846 by descent from his father; sold in 1846
private collection George Morant, Londen (Engeland)
art dealer Rutley and Co. Emery, Londen (Engeland)
1846 - according to a handwritten note by Hofstede de Groot in a copy of his Verzeichnis at the RKD's library
private collection Robert Field, Londen (Engeland)/Pyrgo Park, Essex
- 1856-06-03 sold
private collection Charles Scarisbrick, Scarisbrick Hall
- 1861-05-10 sold
art dealer Christianus Johannes Nieuwenhuys, Brussels/London
Jansen et al. 2019, no. 15a, note 3
1861-05-10 -
private collection Adrian John Hope, London (England)
- 1894-06-30 sold
private collection Charles John Wertheimer, London (England)
1894-06-30 -
art dealer Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris (France)
- 1894-07-30 sold to Peter A.B. Widener
private collection Peter Arrell Brown Widener, Lynnewood Hall (Elkins Park, Philadelphia)
1894-07-30 -
private collection J.E. Widener, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
by descent from his father
- 1942
National Gallery of Art (Washington), Washington (D.C.) , inv./cat.nr 629
gift of J.E. Widener
1942 -

Auction(s)

Vries, Jeronimo de (Amsterdam (city)) 1822-05-22, afb. zonder afbeelding, lotnr. 86
Contributor S.J. Stinstra
Name buyer : unknown , 25 florijnen

, possibly this painting
Christie (London (England)) 1826-05-12 - 1826-05-13, lotnr. 14
Contributor William Waldegrave
Name buyer : 1st Duke of Sutherland George Granville Leveson-Gower , 73.10 GBP
Christie (London (England)) 1856-06-03 - 1856-06-06, lotnr. 520
Contributor Robert Field
Name buyer : unknown , 43.10 GBP
Christie (London (England)) 1861-05-10 - 1861-05-11, lotnr. 119
Contributor Charles Scarisbrick
Name buyer : C.J. Nieuwenhuys , 441 GBP
Christie (London (England)) 1894-06-30, lotnr. 32
Contributor Adrian John Hope
Name buyer : Charles John Wertheimer , 2150 guinea

Literature

S. Alpers, ‘De Hooch: A View with a Room’, Art in America 87, no. 6 (1999), p. 96-97
A.K. Wheelock, “Pieter de Hooch/The Bedroom/1658/1660,” Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century, 2014, NGA Online Editions, https://purl.org/nga/collection/artobject/1172 (accessed 2019-05-03)
P. Humfrey, ‘The Stafford Gallery at Cleveland House and the 2nd Marquess of Stafford as a Collector’, Journal of the History of Collections 28, no. 1 (2016), p. 52, 55, note 61

Visual documentation

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Creation date: 2015-08-08; Last modified date: 2022-08-04

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