Pieter de Hooch

Paying the Hostess



Pieter de Hooch - Paying the Hostess



Pieter de Hooch
Paying the Hostess
c. 1670
94.6 x 111.1 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, upper right, on beam: P d·Hoogh·
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Stuart Borchard and Evelyn B. Metzger, 1958


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Sutton 111 info

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 89


Provenance

J.G. Cramer, Amsterdam, until 1769
his sale, Amsterdam, 13ff. or 15ff. November 1769
sale, Amsterdam, 30 November 1772, nr. 15
Charles-Auguste-Louis-Joseph de Morny, duc de Morny, Paris, possibly bought in St. Petersburg in 1857, definitely by 1863–died 1865
his estate sale, Palais de la Présidence du Corps Législatif, Paris, 31ff. May 1865, nr. 53, to Demidoff
Paul Demidoff, principe di San Donato, Florence and St. Petersburg, from 1865
with Satinover, New York, 1922–23, ?sold to Borchard
Samuel Borchard, New York, from 1923
his children, Stuart Borchard and Evelyn Borchard Metzger, New York, until 1958

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 58.144

Other works by Pieter de Hooch


Pieter de Hooch A Seated Soldier with a Standing Serving Woman
A Seated Soldier with a Standing Serving Woman
1652-55

Pieter de Hooch Woman with a Water Pitcher, and a Man by a Bed ('The Maidservant')
Woman with a Water Pitcher, and a Man by a Bed ('The Maidservant')

Pieter de Hooch Card Players at a Table
Card Players at a Table
1670-74

Pieter de Hooch A Soldier with Dead Birds and Other Figures in a Stable
A Soldier with Dead Birds and Other Figures in a Stable
1655-57

Pieter de Hooch A Woman and Two Men in an Arbor
A Woman and Two Men in an Arbor
c. 1657–58