The Fireside

Artist Pieter de Hooch Dutch, 1629–1684

Datecirca 1670–1675

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions26 1/8 x 30 1/2 in. (66.4 x 77.5 cm)
Frame: 33 3/4 x 38 1/2 in. (85.7 x 97.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.45

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ProvenanceCreated Amsterdam, ca. 1670–1675. [Frederik Willem Greebe, Amsterdam, December 8, 1788, no. 3]; sold to Yver; [J. Pekstok, Amsterdam, December 17, 1792, no. 38]; sold to Schley; [François van Harencarspel Eckhardt (1784–1842), December 15, 1842, no. 53]; sold to Hoffman’s executors; [sale, Collection P. Voûte, Amsterdam, November 12–13, 1845, no. 32]; sold to Burton. [Dowdeswell, London, by 1920]; Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, by 1921. [Silberman Galleries, New York, by 1949]; sold to NCMA, 1952.Published ReferencesC[ornelis] Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 1 (London: Macmillan and Co., 1908), 492, no. 60.

Clotilde Brière-Misme, Tableaus inédits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch (Paris: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1927), 265.

W[ilhelm] R. Valentiner, “Pieter de Hooch Part Two,” Art in America and Elsewhere, The Burlington Magazine 15, no. 2 (February 1927), 67-77, as Woman at the Fireside, Servant Girl, and Child.

W[ilhelm] R. Valentiner, Pieter de Hooch (Klassiker der Kunst) (Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 1929), 284, illus. 123.

W[ilhelm] R. Valentiner, Pieter de Hooch (New York: E. Weyhe, 1930), 283, illus. 123.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 54, illus. (b-w).

Mother and Child (exhibition catalogue) (Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1967), cat. no. 71, illus. 40.

John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979), 188, illus.

Peter C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch. (including Catalogue Raisonné) (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1980), cat. no. 99, illus. pl. 102.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 112.

Adri van Goelkerken, "Kleine Mensen of Grote Werken" (Doctoral Dissertation, Wijsgerig-Historische Pedagogiek, 1985), 53-54, illus.

Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1986), discussed 8, illus. (b-w) 3, fig. 1.

Andrew Rowan, ed., Animals and People Sharing the World (Hanover and London: Tufts University by University Press of New England, 1988), 121, illus. 123.

André Scala, Pieter de Hooch, (Paris : Editions Séguier, 1991), 105.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 104.

Wayne E. Franits, Paragons of Virtue: Women and Domesticity in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 102, 104, illus. 105.

Dennis Weller, entry for The Fireside, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 108, illus. (color).

Donna R. Barnes and Peter G. Rose, Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and Life (exhibition catalogue) (Syracuse: Published for the Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, by Syracuse University Press, 2002), discussed 82, illus. (color) 83.

Dennis P. Weller, Seventeenth-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2009), cat. no. 21, illus. (color) 90.

Dennis P. Weller, entry for The Fireside, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 230, illus. (color) 231.

Two Republics: 17th Century Dutch & 19th Century American Art for the Common Man (exhibition brochure) (Columbus, GA: The Columbus Museum, 2014), mentioned and illus. (color) 8.
Exhibition HistoryAtlanta, GA, High Museum, "Paintings and Sculpture, Gothic to Surrealism," January 8-February 5, 1950, cat. no. 21.

Winnipeg, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 'Mother and Child," May 14-August 13, 1967, cat. no. 71, illus. 40.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Dutch Art in the Age of Rembrandt," October 25, 1986-February 15, 1987, discussed 8, illus. (b-w) 3, fig. 1.

Durham, NC, Duke University, "Ten Dutch and Flemish Paintings," October 1995-May 1996.

Albany, NY, Albany Institute of History & Art, "Matters of Taste: Food and Drink in 17th Century Dutch Art and Life," September 20-December 8, 2002, cat. no. 27, illus. (color).

Columbus, GA, The Columbus Museum, “Two Republics: 17th Century Dutch & 19th Century American Art for the Common Man,” October 5, 2014–January 11, 2015, metioned and illus. (color) brochure, 8.

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