The Golf Players

The Golf Players

Artist	Pieter de Hooch
Year	1658
Dimensions	63.5 cm × 45.7 cm (25.0 in × 18.0 in)
Location	Polesden Lacey, Surrey

The Golf Players (1658) is an oil on panel 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 Polesden Lacey.

This painting by Hooch was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote; "305. The Game of Golf. In an entrance-hall paved with red tiles a little girl carrying a golf-club stands with her hand on the latch of an open door. She looks at a boy who is playing golf in the courtyard. In the distance is a village. Panel, 25 inches by 18 inches. Formerly in the collection of Count von Fries, Vienna. Sales:

Heris of Brussels, in Paris, June 19, 1846, No. 27.
Pierard of Valenciennes, in Paris, March 21, 1860, No. 29.
Sir H. H. Campbell, in London, 1867 (bought in for ₤63)."^[1]

This painting seems to have been a successful design for De Hooch as there are several variations on the subject of this little girl in the doorway:

References

↑ entry 305 for The Game of Golf in Hofstede de Groot, 1910

The Golf Players in the National Trust

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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