Lot 56: PIETER DE HOOCH

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF LADY FORTE
ROTTERDAM 1629 - 1684 AMSTERDAM
INTERIOR WITH A CHILD FEEDING A PARROT
signed and dated on the window sill, center left: P. D hooch 1672
oil on canvas
31 1/4 by 26 in.; 79.5 by 66 cm.

Newcastle- upon-Tyne, The Hatton Gallery, King's College, Pictures from Collections in Northumberland, 8 May - 15 June 1951, no. 23;
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Dutch Pictures 1450-1750, 2 July 1952 - 14 September 3, no. 390.

J. Smith, Supplement to the catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French painters, London 1842, p. 565, no. 6 ('formerly in a small collection made by the Duc de Berri');
G. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain, London 1857, vol. IV, p. 99;
C. Blanc, La trésor de la curiosité, Paris 1857-58, vol. II, p. 433;
C. Blanc, Histoire des peintres de toutes les ecoles, vol. X, Ecole Hollandaise, Paris 1863, p. 8;
H. Havard, 'Pieter de Hooch', in L'Art et les artistes hollandaise, vol. III, Paris 1880, p. 97;
R. Gower, The Northbrook Gallery, London 1885, no. 32;
W.H.J. Weale, A Descriptive Catalogue of the pictures belonging to the Earl of Northbrook, London 1889, no. 48;
C. Hofstede de Groot, 'Proeve kritische bescriving van het werk van Pieter de Hooch', in Oud Holland, 10 (1892), no. 50;
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der Hervorragendsten Hollandischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, vol. I, Paris 1907, p. 505, no. 113;
A. de Rudder, 'Pieter de Hooch', in Connoisseur, vol. XXXIX, Brussels 1913, p. 99;
W. Rothes, 'Pieter de Hooch', in 'Terborch und das holländische gesellschaftsbild', in Die Kunst dem Volke, vol. 41-2, 1921, p. 44, fig. 69;
K. Lilienfeld, 'Pieter de Hooch', in Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexicon der bildenden Kunste, Leipzig 1924, p. 453;
C. Collins Baker, Pieter de Hooch, London 1925, pp. 6, 8, plate XI;
C. Brière-Misme, 'Tableaux inédits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 15, November 1927, p. 263;
W.R. Valentiner, Pieter de Hooch. Klassiker der Kunst, Berlin - Leipzig 1929, no. 111;
C. Collins Baker, 'De Hooch or nor de Hooch? Review of W. Valentiner', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 57, 1930. p. 198;
W. Bernt, The Netherlandish painters of the seventeenth century, London, 1970, vol. II, no. 550;
P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford 1980, p. 103, no. 90, reproduced plate 93;
P.C. Sutton, in the exhibition catalogue, Pieter de Hooch, Dulwich and Herttford, 1998-9, p. 178.

Anonymous sale (Payet?), Paris, Salle du Mont de Piété, 9 December 1811, lot 54 (660 francs);
Charles Ferdinand, Duc de Berri (1778-1820), Paris;
Casimir Périer, Paris;
His sale, Paris, Laneuville, 18-21 April 1838, lot 17;
Imported to England by Hume in 1840 (according to Smith op. cit below);
With Chaplin, London by 1854;
Thomas Baring (1799-1873), by whom acquired from the above before 1857 and later bequeathed to;
Thomas, 2υnd Baron and 1υst Earl of Northbrook (1826-1904);
Thence by descent in the Northbrook collection until after 1930;
Clive Cookson, Nether Warden, Hexham, by 1951;
With P. and D. Colnaghi, London;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 30 June 1971, lot 12;
With Leonard Koetser, London, from whom acquired by Lord and Lady Forte on 1 August 1972.