Pieter de Hooch

A Man Reading a Letter to a Woman



Pieter de Hooch - A Man Reading a Letter to a Woman



Pieter de Hooch
A Man Reading a Letter to a Woman
1670-74
77 x 69.9 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed on the footwarmer: P.d. Hoo
The Kremer Collection


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 240
Sutton 97 info


Exhibitions

2019 Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the Shadow of Vermeer, Nr. 23
2017 Die Geburt des Kunstmarktes. Rembrandt, Ruisdael, van Goyen und die Künstler des Goldenen Zeitalters, Nr. 62
2014 Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age, Nr. 123
2011 Ilone et George Kremer. Héritiers de l'Âge d"Or hollandais, Nr. 17
2008 Rembrandt, een jongensdroom, Nr. 22
1998 Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684, Nr. 39

Provenance

Willem Joseph, Baron van Brienen, Lord of Groote Lindt Dortsmond, Stad aan het Haringvliet and Wassenaar (1760-1839), Amsterdam 1811-1813
his son, Arnold Willem, Baron van Brienen, Lord of Groote Liondt (1793-1846)
his son, Willem Thiery Arnold Maria, Baron van Brienen, Lord of Groote Lindt, chamberlain to the king of the Netherlands
Baron van Brienen sale, Paris, 8 May 1865, nr. 15, bought in
by descent in the family, Paris
Charles d'Yturbe, Paris
sale London, Christie's, 4 July 1997, nr. 19
with Noortman Master Paintings, Maastricht
whence acquired in May 1998
on loan to the Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1999-2011
on loan to the Pinacothèque de Paris, Paris, since 2011
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Other works by Pieter de Hooch


Pieter de Hooch Interior with a Young Woman and a Man with a Letter
Interior with a Young Woman and a Man with a Letter
1670

Pieter de Hooch A Boy bringing Bread
A Boy bringing Bread

Pieter de Hooch Woman and Child in an Interior
Woman and Child in an Interior
c. 1658

Pieter de Hooch Mother and Child with a Serving Woman Sweeping
Mother and Child with a Serving Woman Sweeping
1655-57

Pieter de Hooch The Interior of the Burgomasters' Council Chamber in the Amsterdam Town Hall with Visitors
The Interior of the Burgomasters' Council Chamber in the Amsterdam Town Hall with Visitors
1663-65