Interior with Women beside a Linen Cupboard (At the Linen Closet or Two Women Beside a Linen Chest with a Child)
Pieter de Hooch
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- Interior with Women beside a Linen Cupboard (At the Linen Closet; Two Women Beside a Linen Chest, with a Child)
Artist Pieter de Hooch
Year 1663
Dimensions h 70cm × w 75.5cm
Location Amsterdam Museum on loan to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
This scene of domestic virtue dates from De Hooch’s Amsterdam period. In a richly appointed house, two women put freshly pressed linen into a cupboard. They have hitched up their skirts to keep them clean while doing household chores. In the doorway a child plays with a kolfstok, a kind of hockey stick. Brightly lit canal houses can be see.
Two Women Beside a Linen Chest, with a Child (c. 1663) 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 Amsterdam Museum, on loan to the Rijksmuseum.
This painting by Hooch was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote; "25. THE GOOD HOUSEWIFE. Sm. Suppl. 38. ; de G. 13.[1] A woman is putting away linen in a great oak press, inlaid with ebony, which stands to the right in a room. A girl, who, to judge from her fine clothes, is the woman's daughter, is helping her and taking the linen from a large basket. At the back are a high window and an open door, at which stands a child playing with a stick and a ball. A winding staircase and a cushioned chair are seen to the left of the room.
"Although this picture does not possess the brilliant and luminous effect which is so much coveted in this master's works, yet it has the charm of such truth and reality in appearance that it may justly be reckoned among his best works ; the drawing and finishing are singularly perfect" (Sm.). Signed "P. de Hoogh, 1663" ; canvas, 30 inches by 28 inches.
Exhibited at Amsterdam in 1872, No. 110, and 1900, No. 46. See Harvard, Merveilles d'Art, pp. 57, 123. Sales:
Baron Lockhorst, in Rotterdam, 1726.
Joachim Rendorp, October 16, 1793, and July 9, 1794, No. 25 (295 florins, Coders) ; catalogued as on panel.
Bought by Sm., after passing through the hands of a Scottish owner, for 5-
Sale. Smith, 1828 (399, bought in).
In the collection of Six van Hillegom, Amsterdam, 1833 (Sm.).
Now in the collection of Dr. J. P. Six, Amsterdam, No. 46."
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