Pieter de Hooch

The Bedroom



Pieter de Hooch - The Bedroom



Pieter de Hooch
The Bedroom
1658-60
51 x 60 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 78
Sutton 40B info

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 133-136
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 382

Literature
Mariët Westermann, Art & home, Zwolle, 2001, fig. 182
Adriaan E. Waiboer, with Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr and Blaise Ducos, Vermeer and the masters of genre painting, Dublin, Washington, Paris, New Haven and London, 2017, fig. 38
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 45


Exhibitions

2019 Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the Shadow of Vermeer, Nr. 15a
1998 Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684, Nr. 21
1990 Great Dutch Paintings in America, Nr. 35

Provenance

Possibly S.J. Stinstra collection, Amsterdam
possibly sale, S.J. Stinstra, Amsterdam, 1822, nr. 86
William Waldegrave, Lord Radstock (1753-1825), Longford Castle, Wiltshire, and Coleshill, Berkshire
sale, Christie's, 12-13 May 1826, nr. 14
George Granville Leveson-Gower, 1st duke of Sutherland (1783-1833), Stafford House, London
by inheritance to his son, George Granville Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, 2nd duke of Sutherland (1786-1861), Stafford House
with Emery Rutley, London, in 1846
Morant
Robert Field, London
sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6 June 1856, nr. 520
Charles Scarisbrick (died 1860), Scarisbrick Hall, Lancashire
his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 10 May 1861, nr. 119
with Francis Nieuwenhuys, London
Adrian John Hope (1811-1863), London
his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 30 June 1894, nr. 32
Charles J. Wertheimer, London and Paris
with Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, sold 30 July 1894 to Widener
Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania
gift 1942 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1942.9.33

Other works by Pieter de Hooch


Pieter de Hooch A Seated Couple with a Standing Woman in a Garden
A Seated Couple with a Standing Woman in a Garden
1663-65

Pieter de Hooch The Music-making Family
The Music-making Family
1663

Pieter de Hooch Woman and Child in a Courtyard
Woman and Child in a Courtyard
1658/60

Pieter de Hooch Courtyard with Lady and Serving Maid
Courtyard with Lady and Serving Maid
1660-63

Pieter de Hooch Woman Drinking with Two Men
Woman Drinking with Two Men
1658