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Pieter de Hooch: Man Handing a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall of a House  wikidata:Q17341995 reasonator:Q17341995
Artist
Pieter de Hooch  (1629–after 1684
date QS:P,+1684–00–00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1684–00–00T00:00:00Z/9
)  wikidata:Q314889 s:nl:Hoofdportaal:Beeldende kunst/Schilderkunst/Nederland/Pieter de Hooch
 
Pieter de Hooch
Alternative names
Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch, Pieter de Hoogh, Pieter Hendricksz. de Hoogh, Pieter de Hooghe, Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooghe
Description Dutch painter and drawer
Date of birth/death 20 December 1629 (baptised) after 24 March 1684
date QS:P,+1684-03-24T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1684-03-24T00:00:00Z/11
Location of birth/death Rotterdam Amsterdam
Work period 1652-1679
Work location
Haarlem, Rotterdam, Delft (1652-1657), Amsterdam (1660), The Hague (1664), Amsterdam (1667-1679)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q314889
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
French:
Un homme remettant une lettre à une femme dans l'entrée d'une maison Edit this at Wikidata

Man Handing a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall of a House
label QS:Len,"Man Handing a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall of a House"
label QS:Lnl,"Het aanreiken van een brief in een voorhuis"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Man handing a letter to a woman in the entrance hall of a house. A young woman sits by the window with a dog on het lap. To the right a young man approaches holding a letter. To the left another dog. Through the open door a child can be seen playing on the street alongside a canal (perhaps the Kloveniersburgwal in Amsterdam).
Date 1670
date QS:P571,+1670-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 68 cm (26.7 in); width: 59 cm (23.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,68U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,59U174728
institution QS:P195,Q190804
Current location
Gallery of Honour
Accession number
SK-C-147
Place of creation Amsterdam
Object history after 1824
date QS:P,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1824-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
(?): Christina Catharina Kemper-de Vries, Leiden

1833: purchased by Adriaan van der Hoop (1778-1854), Amsterdam, from Christina Catharina Kemper-de Vries through Jeronimo de Vries (art dealer)

15 March 1854: bequeathed to the city of Amsterdam, Inventory number SA 7515, by Adriaan van der Hoop, Amsterdam

from 1854 until 1885
date QS:P,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1854-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1885-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: Museum Van der Hoop, Oudezijds Achterburgwal, Amsterdam
30 June 1885: lent to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Inventory number SK-C-147, by the city of Amsterdam
Exhibition history

Love letters. Dutch genre painting in the age of Vermeer, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1 October 2003–31 December 2003, ISBN 0-7112-2338-6, ISBN 0-9720736-6-3.

De Hollandse meesters van een Amsterdamse bankier. De verzameling van Adriaan van der Hoop, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 15 October 2004–23 January 2005.

Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art. Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, 24 September 2006–7 January 2007, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, 27 January 2007–6 May 2007, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, 26 May 2007–16 September 2007, p. 218.
Inscriptions

Signature and date center:

P. de hooch. f. 1670.
References

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue, as Man Handing a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall of a House, 68 × 59 cm (26.7 × 23.2 in).

Amsterdam Museum collectie online, as Het aanreiken van een brief in een voorhuis, 68 × 59 cm (26.7 × 23.2 in).

RKDimages, Art-work number 25650, as Young woman with a letter and a messenger in an interior, 68 × 59 cm (26.7 × 23.2 in)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur, object 00075541, as Der Brief, 61 × 47 cm (24 × 18.5 in)
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File:Het aanreiken van een brief in een voorhuis Rijksmuseum SK-C-147.jpeg
Version from www.rijksmuseum.nl
File:Interieur - Pieter de Hooch.png
Version from Geheugen van Nederland

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