Pieter de Hooch: A Mother's Duty
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Artist |
Pieter de Hooch
(1629–after 1684 date QS:P,+1684–00–00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1684–00–00T00:00:00Z/9 ) |
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Alternative names |
Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch, Pieter de Hoogh, Pieter Hendricksz. de Hoogh, Pieter de Hooghe, Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooghe |
Description |
Dutch painter and drawer |
Date of birth/death |
20 December 1629 (baptised) |
after 24 March 1684 date QS:P,+1684-03-24T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1684-03-24T00:00:00Z/11 |
Location of birth/death |
Rotterdam |
Amsterdam |
Work period |
1652-1679 |
Work location |
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Authority file |
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artist QS:P170,Q314889 |
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Title |
A Mother Delousing her Child’s Hair, Known as ‘A Mother’s Duty’ label QS:Lfr,"Une mère qui nettoie la chevelure de son enfant ou « La Tâche maternelle »"
label QS:Lnl,"Vrouw die een kind luist, bekend als ‘Moedertaak’"
label QS:Len,"A Mother Delousing her Child's Hair, known as ‘A Mother's Duty’" |
Object type |
painting |
Genre |
genre art |
Description |
Interior with a mother delousing her child's hair, known as 'A Mother's Duty'. The mother sits to the right in front of a bedstede. Further to the right a high chair. To the left a dog sits on the tiled floor looking towards an open window in the adjacent room. Over the door hangs a small landscape painting. |
Date |
Circa 1658-1660 |
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
Dimensions |
height: 52.5 cm (20.6 in); width: 61 cm (24 in) dimensions QS:P2048,52.5U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,61U174728 |
Collection |
Rijksmuseum
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Native name |
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam |
Location |
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Coordinates |
52° 21′ 36″ N, 4° 53′ 07″ E |
Established |
1800 |
Website |
rijksmuseum.nl |
Authority file |
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institution QS:P195,Q190804 |
Current location |
Gallery of Honour |
Accession number |
SK-C-149 |
Place of creation |
Northern Netherlands |
Object history |
18 August 1817: sale of the collection of Mrs. A.M. Hogguer-Ebeling at an unknown auction house, Amsterdam, lot no. 19
by 1854date QS:P,+1854-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1854-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 : Adriaan van der Hoop (1778-1854), Amsterdam
1854: bequeathed to the city of Amsterdam by Adriaan van der Hoop, Amsterdam
30 June 1885: lent to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, by the city of Amsterdam
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Exhibition history |
Pieter de Hooch 1629-1684, 3 September 1998–15 November 1998, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Cat.no. 22.
The Golden Age. Highlights from the Rijksmuseum, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 24 June 2005–2 October 2005, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, 25 October 2005–15 January 2006.
La ragazza alla spinetta di Johannes Vermeer e gli artisti di Delft, Galleria Estense, Modena, 14 April 2007–15 July 2007, p. 218.
Rembrandt and the Golden Age. Highlights from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, 2 November 2007–13 February 2008, cat. no. 74.
Vermeer, Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch painting. Masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum, 9 May 2009–13 September 2009, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, ISBN 978-1-55365-471-1, p. 226-227.
L'âge d'or hollandais. De Rembrandt à Vermeer/The Dutch Golden age. From Rembrandt to Vermeer, Pinacothèque de Paris, Paris, 7 October 2009–7 February 2010, ISBN 9782358670050, p. 296-297, cat. no. 125.
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Inscriptions |
bottom right:
Pr. de hooch.
on the children's chair |
References |
AnonymousUnknown author, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue, as A Mother Delousing her Child’s Hair, Known as ‘A Mother’s Duty’, circa 1658 date QS:P,+1658-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 -circa 1660date QS:P,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 .
AnonymousUnknown author, RKDimages, Art-work number 25655, as Woman delousing a child's hair, circa 1658-1660 (1656-1662)
AnonymousUnknown author, Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage Photolibrary, object number 40004710, as Binnenkamer met een moeder die het haar van haar kind reinigt, bekend als ‘Moedertaak’, 1658-1660.
AnonymousUnknown author, Web Gallery of Art, as The Mother, circa 1660date QS:P,+1660-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902 .
Domenicus-van Soest, Marleen (2003) Les Chefs-d'oeuvre. Guide [mus.cat.], [Amsterdam]: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, p. 115, as Intérieur avec une mère qui nettoie la chevelure de son enfant ou « La Tâche maternelle ». |
Source/Photographer |
2QEJmTuJVEMwuA — Google Arts & Culture |
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