Pieter de Hooch

A Merry Company with Two Men and Two Women



Pieter de Hooch - A Merry Company with Two Men and Two Women



Pieter de Hooch
A Merry Company with Two Men and Two Women
1657-58
67.9 x 58.5 cm
Oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
H.O. Havemeyer Collection, Bequest of Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, 1929


Literature


Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 192
Sutton 19 info

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 84

Literature
Esmée Quodbach (ed.), Holland's Golden Age in America, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2014, fig. 44
Stephan Koja, Uta Neidhardt, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Dresden, 2021, p. 182, fig. 20
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 32


Exhibitions


2001 Vermeer and the Delft School, Nr. 25
1998 Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684, Nr. 8

Provenance


?Jacob Odon, Amsterdam, until 1784
his estate sale, Arnoldus Dankmeyer en Zoon, Amsterdam, 6ff. September 1784, nr. 10, to Braams Pelsdinge
baron François Delessert, Paris, by 1833–69
his sale, at his hôtel, Paris, 15-18 March 1869, nr. 36, to Narischkine
B. Narischkine, Paris, 1869–83
his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 5 April 1883, nr. 16, to Cedron
E. Secrétan, Paris, until 1889
sale E. Secrétan, Galerie Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1-4 July 1889 (Lugt 48407), nr. 128, to Durand-Ruel for Havemeyer
Mr. and Mrs. H.O. Havemeyer, New York, 1889–his death 1907
Mrs. H.O. (Louisine W.) Havemeyer, New York, 1907–died 1929

External links


RKD 235676
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 29.100.7

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Pieter de Hooch Woman Giving a Coin to a Maid
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Pieter de Hooch The Merry Drinker
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Pieter de Hooch Woman and Maidservant in a Courtyard
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Pieter de Hooch Woman with needlework and a child
Woman with needlework and a child

Pieter de Hooch Paying the hostess
Paying the hostess
1658