A Woman with a Child in a Pantry

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A Woman with a Child in a Pantry
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Artist Pieter de Hooch
Yearc. 1658 (c. 1658)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions65 cm× 60.5 cm(26 in× 23.8 in)
Location Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

A Woman with a Child in a Pantry is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Pieter de Hooch, created c. 1658. It is part of the collection of the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam.

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

1. A YOUNG WOMAN AT A PANTRY-DOOR WITH A CHILD. Sm. 25; deG. 3. [1] In a room floored with yellow tiles stands, to the left, a young woman, wearing a red jacket and a blue skirt. She has just come from the pantry, and smilingly hands a jug to a little girl. Both figures are seen in profile. Traces of a picture painted over by the artist himself are faintly visible on the wall above the woman's head. The small window of the pantry and a cask are seen through an open door on the left. Through an open door on the right is a sitting-room; in this room a cushioned chair, with a portrait on the wall above it, stands by the open window. "An excellent work of the master" (Sm.).

Signed " P.D.H."; canvas, 27 inches by 23 inches. A good early copy is in the possession of the Rt. Hon. Sir A. Hayter, London. Sales:

Now in the Rijksmuseum at Amsterdam, No. 1248 in the 1903 catalogue (formerly numbered 682). [2]

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References

  1. 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
  2. entry 1 for A Young Woman at a Pantry-door with a Child in Hofstede de Groot, 1908