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image of A Dutch Courtyard
Pieter de Hooch (artist)
Dutch, 1629 - 1684
A Dutch Courtyard, 1658/1660
oil on canvas
Overall: 69.5 x 60 cm (27 3/8 x 23 5/8 in.) framed: 92.7 x 83.8 x 12.1 cm (36 1/2 x 33 x 4 3/4 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
1937.1.56
From the Tour: Johannes Vermeer and Dutch Scenes of Daily Life in the 1600s
Object 1 of 8
1829Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters. 9 v ols. London, 1829-1842: 9(1842):573, no. 30.
1854Waagen, Gustav Friedrich. Treasures of Art in Great Britain: being an account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, and Illuminated Mss. 3 vols. Translated from the German by Lady Eastlake. London, 1854-1857: 2:130.
1879Havard, Henry. L'Art et les artistes hollandais. 4 vols. Paris, 1879-1881: 3(1881): 128.
1884Davis, Charles. A Description of the Works of Art Forming the Collection of Alfred de Rothschild. London, 1884: 1:no. 15, repro.
1907Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century.... 8 vols., translated from the German edition. London, 1907-1917: 1(1907): 559, no. 295.
1913Rudder, Arthur de. Pieter de Hooch et son oeuvre. Brussels and Paris, 1913: 61, 65.
1925Collins Baker, Charles Henry. Masters of Painting. Pieter de Hooch. London, 1925: 6-7.
1926Valentiner, Wilhelm R. "Pieter de Hooch, Parts I and II." Art in America 15, no. 1 (December 1926): 45-64, fig. 4; 15, no. 2 (February 1927): 67-77.
1927Brière-Misme, Clotilde. "Tableaux inédits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch." Parts I-III. Gazette des Beaux-Arts 69, no. 15: 361-380; no. 16: 51-79, 258-286.
1929Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Pieter de Hooch. des Meisters Gemälde. Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben, 35. Berlin and Leipzig, 1929: xiv, xv, 44, repro. (also 1930 English ed., trans. by Alice M. Sharkey and E. Schwandt, London and New York).
1939Masterworks of Five Centuries. Exh. cat. Golden Gate International Exposition. San Francisco, 1939: 81a.
1939McCall, George Henry. Masterpieces of Art: European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, ed. Exh. cat. New York World's Fair, New York, 1939: 97.
1941Duveen 1941, fig. 210.
1941Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 99-100.
1942Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 240, repro. 27.
1944Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 106, color repro.
1949Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 92, repro.
1956Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 44, repro.
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 112
1960Baird, Thomas P. Dutch Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Seven in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 34, color repro.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 20.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 192, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 69.
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:240, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 61, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 178, repro.
1975Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 288, no. 384, color repro.
1980Sutton, Peter C. Pieter de Hooch: Complete Edition with a Catalogue Raisonné. Oxford, 1980: 85, no. 35a.
1981Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Jan Vermeer. New York, 1981: 22, ill. 16 (also 1988 2nd rev. ed., 20, fig. 16).
1984Philadelphia 1984, 219.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 288, no. 378, color repro.
1984Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Dutch Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1984: 28-29, repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 205, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 132, repro.
1995Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 139-142, color repro. 141.
1998Fiero, Gloria K. The Humanistic Tradition: Faith, Reason and Power in the Early Modern World. New York, 1998: frontispiece, repro.

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