Lot 5: Ludolf de Jongh (Overschie 1616-1679 Hillegersberg)

Ludolf de Jongh (Overschie 1616-1679 Hillegersberg)
Paying the hostess
signed indistinctly 'L D Jongh' (on the seat of the overturned stool, lower center)
oil on panel
26 3/8 x 25½ in. (67 x 64.8 cm.)

Waltham, Massachusetts, Rose Art Museum, 17th Century Paintings from the Low Countries, 27 February-27 March 1966, no. 19, as 'Pieter de Hooch'.
Norfolk, Virginia, The Chrysler Museum; Providence, Rhode Island, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; Tampa, Florida, The Tampa Museum, The Discovery of the Everyday: Seventeenth Century Dutch paintings from the Wolf Collection, 1982-1983, no. 21, as 'Pieter de Hooch'.
Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vermeer and the Delft Style, 2 August-14 December 2008, no. 24.

R.E. Fleischer, 'Ludolf de Jongh and the Early Works of Pieter de Hooch', Oud Holland, XCII, 1978, pp. 60-61, 63, 65, fig. 20.
P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford, 1980, p. 141, no. D20, pl. 182.
P.C. Sutton, in Masters of Seventeenth Century Dutch Genre Painting, exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia/Berlin/London, 1984, p. LI, fig. 88.
R.E. Fleischer, Ludolf de Jongh, Doornspijk, 1989, p. 69, pl. 80.
R.E. Fleischer and S. Reiss, 'Attributions to Ludolf de Jongh, some old, some new', The Burlington Magazine, CXXXV, no. 1087, October 1993, p. 668, fig. 1.
W. Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, pp. 193, fig. 178.

Dr. Bragge, London; sale, John Prestage, London, 19-21 March 1751, lot 41, as 'De Jonge, An officer paying his Landlady', where purchased by
Sir William Beauchamp, and by descent to Jocelyn Beauchamp, Langley Park, Norwich; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1956, lot 117, as 'Gillis van Tilburg' (£170 to Sabin).
Emile Wolf, New York; Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 2000, lot 28 ($156,500).