Pieter de Hooch
Two Soldiers and a Woman Drinking in a Courtyard
1658-6068 x 59 cm
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 295
Sutton 35A
Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 139-142
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 378
Exhibitions
2019 Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the Shadow of Vermeer, Nr. 14a
2001 Vermeer and the Delft School, Nr. 33
1998 Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684, Nr. 19
Provenance
Cornelis Sebille Roos (1754-1820), Amsterdam
his sale, R.W.P. de Vries, Amsterdam, 28 August 1820, nr. 51
Isaac van Eyck
sale, Paris, purchased by a Mr. Mason
purchased by Baron Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1879), Gunnersbury Park, Greater London, by 1842
by inheritance to his son, Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st baron Rothschild (1840-1915)
by exchange with or sale to his brother, Baron Alfred Charles de Rothschild (1842-1918), London and Halton House, near Wendover, Buckinghamshire
bequeathed to his illegitimate daughter, Almina Victoria, Countess of Carnarvon (c. 1877-1969), later Mrs. Ian Onslow Dennistoun, London, sold 1924 to Duveen
with Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris, sold November 1924 to Mellon
Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh
gift 1937 to NGA
Other works by Pieter de Hooch
Figures Drinking in a Courtyard
1658
1658
A Merry Company with Two Men and Two Women
1657-58
1657-58
Woman and Maidservant in a Courtyard
1661-63
1661-63
Woman Giving a Coin to a Maid
c. 1668-72
c. 1668-72
Woman with needlework and a child