Lot 81: Pieter de Hooch (Rotterdam 1629-after 1684 Amsterdam)

Pieter de Hooch (Rotterdam 1629-after 1684 Amsterdam) An elegant couple playing music on a terrace looking out over a canal, with a maid pouring wine indistinctly signed with monogram 'PH' (lower left) oil on canvas 51.2 x 62.2 cm.

51.2 x 62.2 cm.

C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke, etc, London, 1907, nos. 134 and 171a. A. de Rudder, Pieter de Hooch et son oeuvre, Brussels, 1913, p. 104. K. Lilienfeld, 'Wiedergefundene Gemälde des Pieter de Hooch', in Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, 58-II, 1924-5, p. 187. C.H. Collins Baker, Masters of Painting. Pieter de Hooch, London, 1925, no. 8. C. Briére-Misme, 'Tableaux Inèdits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch', Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1927, p. 276. W.R. Valentiner, Pieter de Hooch, Stuttgart, 1929, no. 171. P. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford, 1980, p. 118, no. 155, fig. 158.

(Possibly) J.G. Korschen; Pfeiffer, Breslau, 11 June 1838, lot 71. Mr. Dunford; Christie's, London, 28 April 1855, lot 90. Mustapha Fazyl Pasha, Paris, 1876. His Excellency Vladimir Templow, St. Petersburg; Christie's London, 25 February 1905, lot 71 (£ 21 to Bailey). Ludwig Mandl, Wiesbaden; Mensing, Amsterdam, 13 July 1926, lot 644. with van Diemen & Co, New York, 1930. A.W. Sjöstrand, Stockholm; Lepke, Berlin, 21 March 1933, lot 54.