Pieter de Hooch

A Mother and Child with its Head in her Lap



Pieter de Hooch - A Mother and Child with its Head in her Lap



Pieter de Hooch
A Mother and Child with its Head in her Lap
1658-60
52.5 x 61 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right on the child's chair: P.d. hooch
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 71
Sutton 42 info

Literature
Mariët Westermann, Art & home, Zwolle, 2001, fig. 139
Frans Grijzenhout, Een schrijfstertje van Vermeer. Jacob Oortman en de Dissiusveiling van 1696 in Oud Holland, 123, 2010 pp. 65-75, fig. 5
Ulrike Kern, Light and Shadow, Clouds and Sunrays: The Concept of Reddering in Netherlandish Art in Oud Holland, 124, 2011 pp. 209-230, fig. 20
Stephan Koja, Uta Neidhardt, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Dresden, 2021, p. 188, fig. 25
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 46


Exhibitions

2021 Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Nr. 29
2019 Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the Shadow of Vermeer, Nr. 18
2001 Vermeer and the Delft School, Nr. 34
1998 Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684, Nr. 22

External links

RKD 25655
Rijksmuseum Accession number SK-C-149

Other works by Pieter de Hooch


Pieter de Hooch Girl Weighing Pearls
Girl Weighing Pearls
c. 1664

Pieter de Hooch A Couple Walking in the Citizens' Hall of the Amsterdam Town Hall
A Couple Walking in the Citizens' Hall of the Amsterdam Town Hall
1663-65

Pieter de Hooch A Woman with a Baby in her Lap and a Small Child
A Woman with a Baby in her Lap and a Small Child
1658

Pieter de Hooch A Woman Drinking with Two Men, and a Serving Woman
A Woman Drinking with Two Men, and a Serving Woman
c. 1658

Pieter de Hooch An Officer and a Woman Conversing, Soldier at the Window
An Officer and a Woman Conversing, Soldier at the Window
1663-65