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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
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
On View
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 vols. 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, Illustrated Mss, etc. etc. 4 vols. London, 1854: 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.
1925Baker, Charles Henry Collins. 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 (1927): 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).
1937Jewell, Edward Alden. "Mellon's Gift." Magazine of Art 30, no. 2 (February 1937): 82.
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.
1939Masterworks of Five Centuries. Exh. cat. Golden Gate International Exposition. San Francisco, 1939: 81a.
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
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.
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.
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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