A Woman Drinking with Two Men and a Serving Woman

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A Woman Drinking with Two Men and a Serving Woman: Pieter de Hooch

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Pieter de Hooch Oil Painting - A Woman Drinking with Two Men and a Serving Woman

Keywords: Woman, Drinking, Men, Serving, Woman

Work Overview: A Woman Drinking with Two Men
Artist Pieter de Hooch
Year 1658
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 73.7 cm × 64.6 cm (29.0 in × 25.4 in)
Location National Gallery, London

This picture was probably painted in 1658, towards the end of de Hooch's stay in Delft. Many changes in the composition show the care with which the design was developed. The figures appear to have been added after the architectural features of the interior had been painted. Its chequered floor is visible through the skirt of the servant to the right, and technical photographs show that this figure was originally in conversation with a man standing on her left, a figure later concealed by the painter.

The main focus of the painting is the wine glass, held up by the girl on the left, which is brightly illuminated from the adjacent window. On the rear wall behind the table is a map of Holland and over the fireplace to the right, a painting showing the Education of the Virgin, which is similar to a picture (Ering, Esterhazy Chapel) which appears to have been painted in Flanders in the early 17th century.

A Woman Drinking with Two Men is a 1658 painting by Pieter de Hooch, an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the National Gallery, London.

This painting by Hooch was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote; "183. GIRL WITH TWO CAVALIERS (or, Interior of a Dutch House). Sm. 49. ; de G. 37.[1] At a table by a broad double window, to the left of a room with wooden rafters and a pavement or black and white tiles, sit two gentlemen. One, at the farther side of the table, faces the spectator ; he wears a hat, and with smiling face holds a pipe in each hand in the attitude of a fiddler. The other, seated before the table in profile to the left, holds his plumed hat on his knee, with his right hand above it. He looks at a girl, with her back to the spectator, who stands close to the window. She holds up a glass of wine in her right hand, as if she were about to give it to the cavalier with the pipes. A servant-girl comes from the right with a pan of burning peat. Behind her is a chimney-piece with two pilasters, above which hangs a large figure-piece. Between the chimney-piece and the window to the left is a map. Signed " P. D. H. " ; canvas, 29 inches by 25 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (i. 403) in the collection of Sir Robert Peel ; and by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosité (ii. 220).

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Seb. Heemskerck, in Amsterdam, March 31, 1749 (Hoet, ii. 251) No. 189 (70 florins).
Van Leyden, Paris, September 10, 1804 (5500 francs, Paillet).
Afterwards in the Pourtales collection, in Paris, which was purchased by Smith and Emmerson in 1826 ; * sold by them to Sir Robert Peel, Bart.
Purchased for the nation in 1871 with the rest of the Peel collection.
Now in the National Gallery in London, No. 834 in the 1906 catalogue."

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