Lot 64: Pieter de Hooch , Rotterdam 1629 - 1684 Amsterdam A Woman Seated by a Window with a Child in a Doorway oil on canvas

oil on canvas

measurements note 21 1/4 by 26 1/2 in.; 54.1 by 67.2 cm.

Probably London, British Institution, 1832, no. 104;
Vancouver, B.C., Art Gallery, Rembrandt to Van Gogh, September 17-October 13, 1957, no. 10.

Probably J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the works of the most emiment Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, London 1833, vol. IV, cat. no. 56;
H. Havard, "Pieter de Hooch, in L'Art e les artistes Hollandais, III, Paris 1880, p. 98;
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné..., vol. I, Esslingen-Paris 1907, no. 39 and probably no. 55;
C. Brière-Misme, "Tableaux inedits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch," Parts I-III, in Gazette des Beaux Arts, November 1927, p. 265;
W. Valentiner, Pieter de Hooch, Klassiker der Kunst, Berlin-Leipzig 1929, p. 285, reproduced p. 141 (as circa 1675-80);
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Catalogue of Paintings, New York 1931, cat. no. H76-1;
K. Baetjer, European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, A Summary Catalogue, New York 1980, vol. I, p. 88, reproduced vol. III, p. 445;
P. C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Ithaca 1980, pp. 115-16, cat. no. 144, reproduced Plate 147 (as circa 1680).

Probably M. Zachary, London;
Probably his sale, London, Phillips, May 31, 1828, lot 24 (unsold?);
Probably his sale, London, Christie's, March 30, 1838, lot 42;
Probably John A. Beaver;
Probably his sale, London, Christie's, June 20, 1840, lot 100, to M. Nieuwenhuys;
Probably Jean André Tardieu;
Probably his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, May 10, 1867, lot 25;
Max Kahn, Paris;
His sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, March 3, 1979, lot 31;
With Sedelmeyer, Paris, 1888 and 1892;
George A. Hearn;
By whom given to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Inv. no. 93.22.2);
By whom sold, New York, Christie's, January 11, 1989, lot 165;
There purchased by the present collector.

PROPERTY OF A NEW YORK COLLECTOR
Domestic scenes featuring women and children performing household chores were some of de Hooch's favorite subjects and he was one of the first Dutch artists to make a specialty of this genre. Domestic imagery first appeared in de Hooch's works during his years in Delft in the 1650s, however Peter Sutton (see literature) dates this painting to circa 1680, late in the artist's career when he was living in Amsterdam. He compares it in execution, and specifically in the treatment of the light falling on the figure of the seated woman before the gilt leather wall hanging, with A Woman with a Serving Girl, in the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille.υ1 1 Inv. no. P304, see P. Sutton, op.cit., p. 115, cat. no. 143, reproduced Plate 146.