A Dutch Courtyard

A Dutch Courtyard

Artist	Pieter de Hooch
Year	1658-1660
Dimensions	69.5 cm × 60 cm (27.4 in × 24 in)
Location	National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

A Dutch Courtyard (1658–1660) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the National Gallery of Art.

This painting by Hooch was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote:

295. A Courtyard with Two Cavaliers and a Woman Drinking. Sm. Suppl. 30. A view in a courtyard, at the end of which an open door with two steps leads into the garden at the back, the trees in which rise above the low wall. In the left foreground a man who is smoking a pipe sits in profile to the right ; he wears a black coat, a grey cloak, and a black hat. To the right, opposite him at the table, stands a woman drinking a glass of beer ; she wears a yellowish-grey jacket, a red skirt, and a blue apron. Behind the table and between the man and woman sits another man, wearing a cuirass and a hat, who faces the spectator ; he holds a mug in
his hand and looks up with a smile at the woman. From the right a little girl holding a pot comes across the courtyard. In the left background is seen the tower of the Nieuwe Kerk at Delft. The picture agrees exactly with that in the collection of Lady Wantage (297), except that in the Wantage picture the figure of the man behind the table is absent. The figures are unusually small in relation to the space, but the effect of sunlight is delicately rendered. Canvas, 30 1/2 inches by 25 1/2 inches. An old copy was in a Dutch dealer's possession in 1903. Described by Waagen (ii. 130).

Sales:

C. S. Roos, Amsterdam, August 28, 1820, No. 51 (600 or 750 florins, Van Eyk).

(Possibly) S. A. Koopman, Utrecht, April 9, 1847 if Sm. is wrong in saying that it belonged to Baron de Rothschild in 1842. (Compare 299.)

In the possession of Baron L. de Rothschild, 1842 (Sm.).

In the collection of Lionel de Rothschild, London.
Now [in 1910], probably, in the collection of Mr. Alfred de Rothschild.^[1]

According to the National Gallery of Art, the provenance of the painting after it was in the collection of Alfred de Rothschild was that it was bequeathed to his illegitimate daughter, Almina Victoria, Countess of Carnarvon. Then it was sold in 1924 to the Duveen Brothers, Inc. Then it was sold in November 1924 to Andrew W. Mellon of Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., who deeded it 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust in Pittsburgh. From there it was gifted in 1937 to the National Gallery of Art.^[2]

References

↑ entry 295 for A Courtyard with Two Cavaliers and a Woman Drinking in Hofstede de Groot, 1910
↑ "National Gallery of Art: The Collection: A Dutch Courtyard". National Gallery of Art. (See "Provenance")

A Dutch Courtyard in the National Gallery of Art

Paintings by Pieter de Hooch

List of paintings

Two Soldiers and a Serving Woman with a Trumpeter A Woman with a Basket of Beans in a Garden The Empty Glass A Man with Dead Birds, and Other Figures, in a Stable A Woman and Two Men in an Arbour Merry company with two men and two women The Golf Players A Woman Drinking with Two Men Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room A Woman with a Child in a Pantry A Dutch Courtyard Group portrait of an unknown family or company The Bedroom (Karlsruhe) The Bedroom (Widener Collection) A Mother's Duty Courtyard with an Arbour The Courtyard of a House in Delft A Man Smoking and a Woman Drinking in a Courtyard Interior with a Woman weighing Gold Coin Lady and her Cook A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy Woman Lacing Her Bodice Beside a Cradle Interior with a Young Couple and a Dog Company in a courtyard behind a house Going for a Walk in the Amsterdam Town Hall¨ A Woman Peeling Apples Two Women Beside a Linen Chest, with a Child A Boy Bringing Bread The Council Chamber in Amsterdam Town Hall Musical Party in a Hall Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid Interior with a Mother close to a Cradle The Maidservant Teaching a Child to Walk Interior of a Kitchen with a Woman, a Child and a Maid Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot Woman giving Money to a Servant-Girl Young woman with a letter and a messenger in an interior

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