Young woman with a letter and a messenger in an interior

Young woman with a letter and a messenger in an interior

Artist	Pieter de Hooch
Year	1670
Dimensions	68 cm × 59 cm (27 in × 23 in)
Location	Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Young woman with a letter and a messenger in an interior (1670) 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 Rijksmuseum.

This painting by Hooch was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote; "173. YOUNG LADY IN A VESTIBULE RECEIVING A LETTER. Sm. 51, Suppl. 22 ; de G. 7.^[1] A lady, wearing a light blue jacket and a red skirt, sits in the farther right-hand corner of a vestibule paved with tiles. A dog lies on her lap ; a bigger dog stands to the left. Through a door on the right a man-servant, hat in hand, enters with a letter. The scene is lighted from a window and from the street-door on the left, outside of which stands a child with a whip. Through the door are seen the trees by the canal and the sunlit houses on the other side of the street, which is the Kloveniersburgwal in Amsterdam. Signed "P d' hooch f. 1670" ; canvas, 27 inches by 23 1/2 inches. A picture of similar dimensions was sold at the Leers sale (201), but this may be the picture formerly in the Hope collection in London (195).

Sales:

(Possibly) J. Caudri, Amsterdam, September 6, 1809, No. 24 (31 florins, Dupre) ; but this only measured 22 inches by 20-3 inches. [Compare 182.]
Madame Camper, Leyden, 1827 (bought in at 4000 florins).
Meijnders, 1838 (3311 florins).

Afterwards in the Van der Hoop collection, No. 50 in the 1876 catalogue. Now in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest ; No. 1249 in the 1905 catalogue (formerly No. 682)."^[2]

References

↑ Comparative table of catalog entries between John Smith's first Catalogue raisonné of Hooch and Hofstede de Groot's first list of Hooch paintings published in Oud Holland
↑ entry 173 for Young Lady in a Vestibule Receiving a Letter in Hofstede de Groot, 1908

Jonge vrouw met brief en een bode in een voorhuis, 1670 in the RKD

External links

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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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