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Pieter de Hooch
(Rotterdam 1629-1684 Amsterdam)
A guardroom interior with soldiers and a woman playing cards unframed

Old Master Paintings

6 December 2017, 15:30 GMT

London, New Bond Street

Sold for £25,000 inc. premium

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Pieter de Hooch (Rotterdam 1629-1684 Amsterdam)

A guardroom interior with soldiers and a woman playing cards
oil on panel, the reverse stamped with the panel-maker's mark of a star
46.7 x 64.2cm (18 3/8 x 25 1/4in).
unframed

Footnotes

Provenance
Sale, Christie's, London, 20 July 1990, lot 143 (as 'Attributed to Pieter de Hooch, and The Property of an Institution, sold for £23,000)
Sale, Sotheby's, London, 18 April 2000, lot 17 (The property of a gentleman)

Literature
P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, 16289-1684, exh. cat., New Haven and London, 1998, under 'Addendum to the 1980 Catalogue Raisonne', p. 182, cat. no. 164, ill.

The present work was first published by Peter Sutton in his 1998 De Hooch exhibition catalogue as a supplement to his 1980 catalogue raisonne. He suggests a date of the first half of the 1650s and compares it to De Hooch's Guardroom Interior in the Galleria Borghese, Rome (inv. no. 269, see: Sutton, ibid, cat. no. 10).

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