Details
Follower of Pieter de Hooch
Elegant figures playing skittles in a landscaped park
oil on canvas
26¼ x 28¾ in. (66.6 x 73 cm.)
Provenance
Thomas Emmerson, London.
Anon. Sale, Phillips, London, 1 May 1829, lot 61, as Pieter de Hooch.
Duke of Marlborough.
Paul Perier; sale Bonnefons, Paris, 16 March 1843, lot 19, as Pieter de Hooch (4,800 FF to Artaria).
Marquis de Colbert-Chabannais, 1866 and by descent to the Duchess de Doudenville and by descent to the Countess de l'Aigle, Paris, 1927.
with Wildenstein, New York, 1929, as Pieter de Hooch, from whom purchased by the museum.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., Esslingen-Paris, 1908, I, p. 564, no. 313, as Pieter de Hooch.
C. Brière-Misme, Tableaux inédits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch, Paris, 1927, pp. 77-79, illustrated, as Pieter de Hooch.
W.R. Valentiner, Pieter de Hooch, the Master's Paintings, London, 1929, p. 82, illustrated, as Pieter de Hooch circa 1665.
D.W. Martin, De Hollandsche Schilderkunst in de 17e eeuw, II, Rembrandt en zijn tijd, Amsterdam, 1936, p. 206, circa 1665.
City Art Museum, St. Louis, Handbook of the Collection, St. Louis, 1953, p. 104, illustrated, as Pieter de Hooch.
P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford, 1980, p.94, no.60B, as a 'reworked replica' by Pieter de Hooch.
Exhibited
Paris, Palais des Champs-Elysées, Tableaux anciens emprontées aux galeries particulières, 1866 (not in catalogue).
Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, A Loan Exhibition of Dutch Genre and Landscape Painting, 1929, Suppl. no. 39a., as Pieter de Hooch.
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Century of Progress Exhibit, 1 June-11 November 1933, no. 67, as Pieter de Hooch.
Toronto, The Art Gallery of Toronto, Fifty Paintings by Old Masters, 12 April-21 May 1950, no. 20, as Pieter de Hooch.
Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, 4 November-11 February 1950-1, ill., no. 43, as Pieter de Hooch.
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Pictures of Everyday Life in Europe, 1500-1900, 14 November- 12 December 1954, no. 42, illustrated, as Pieter de Hooch.
New York, Wildenstein, Fifty Masterpieces from the City Art Museum of St. Louis, 6 November-13 December 1958, no. 21, illustrated, as Pieter de Hooch.
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