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accession number: 1951.355
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Portrait of a Family Playing Music, 1663. Pieter de Hooch (Dutch, 1629-1684). Oil on canvas; framed: 124.5 x 142.5 x 7 cm (49 x 56 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 98.7 x 116.7 cm (38 7/8 x 45 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.355
title: Portrait of a Family Playing Music
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creation date: 1663
creation date earliest: 1663
creation date latest: 1663
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creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund
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culture: Netherlands, 17th century
technique: oil on canvas
department: European Painting and Sculpture
collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Pieter de Hooch (Dutch, 1629-1684) - artist
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measurements: Framed: 124.5 x 142.5 x 7 cm (49 x 56 1/8 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 98.7 x 116.7 cm (38 7/8 x 45 15/16 in.)
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inscription: Signed lower left: "P D HOOCH/ 63"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Dutch Painting, The Golden Age
opening date: 1955-01-05T05:00:00
Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).
title: Old Masters from American Collections
opening date: 1955-11-20T05:00:00
Old Masters from American Collections. Newark Museum, Newark, NJ (organizer) (November 20, 1955-January 2, 1956).
title: 25th Anniversary Exhibition
opening date: 1956-11-29T05:00:00
25th Anniversary Exhibition. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (organizer) (November 29, 1956-January 2, 1957).
title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00
In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 4-April 7, 1958).
title: Paintings of 17th Century Dutch Interiors
opening date: 1967-11-30T05:00:00
Paintings of 17th Century Dutch Interiors. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (organizer) (November 30, 1967-January 7, 1968).
title: Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century
opening date: 1973-07-10T04:00:00
Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art (July 10-September 2, 1973).
title: Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection
opening date: 1989-02-06T05:00:00
Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 6-June 11, 1989).
title: Great Dutch Paintings From America
opening date: 1990-09-25T04:00:00
Great Dutch Paintings From America. Mauritshuis (organizer) (September 25, 1990-January 13, 1991); Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor (February 16-May 5, 1991).
title: Pieter de Hooch
opening date: 1998-08-26T00:00:00
Pieter de Hooch. Dulwich Picture Gallery (August 26-November 15, 1998); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (organizer) (December 20, 1998-March 14, 1999).
title: Asia in Amsterdam
opening date: 2015-10-17T00:00:00
Asia in Amsterdam. Rijksmuseum (organizer) (October 17, 2015-January 17, 2016).
title: Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the Shadow of Vermeer
opening date: 2019-10-11T04:00:00
Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the Shadow of Vermeer. Museum Prinsenhof Delft, Delft, Netherlands (organizer) (October 11, 2019-February 16, 2020).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* Delft Masters: Vermeer's Contemporaries, Delft, Municipal Museum Het Prinsenhof, March 1 - June 9, 1996: [ p. refs. in accompanying book, see under literature].
Giltaij, Jeroen. Senses and Sins: Dutch Painters of Daily Life in the Seventeenth Century (Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, c2004), p. 237, fig. 1.
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage (March 29, 2007 - July 8, 2007): "Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art"
* British Institution, London, United Kingdom (1829).
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PROVENANCE
James A. Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, First Baron Wharncliffe (1776-1845), 1833;
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John Smith, London;
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William Theobald, London, 1842 (sale: Christies’s, London, May 10, 1851, no. 76);
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private collection, Yorkshire;
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E. E. Cook, Bath;
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[Scott & Fowles, New York], sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.
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fun fact:
During this period, the Dutch Republic was the richest, most urbanized nation.
digital description:
wall description:
The identity of the sitters remains unknown, although the marble floor and mantelpiece, the Transylvanian prayer rug on the table, and the silk clothes all point to the family’s considerable wealth. Furthermore, the richly carved chest at the right supports Chinese vases and Japanese lacquered boxes, a reference to the flourishing Dutch trade with Asia. Music making often took place at home, and its appearance here also signifies the harmoniousness of the family.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Smith, John. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters; In Which Is Included a Short Biographical Notice of the Artists, with a Copious Description of Their Principal Pictures; a Statement of the Prices at Which Such Pictures Have Been Sold at Public Sales on the Continent and in England; a Reference to the Galleries and Private Collections, in Which a Large Portion Are at Present; and the Names of the Artists by Whom They Have Been Engraved; to Which Is Added, a Brief Notice of the Scholars & Imitators of the Great Masters of the Above Schools. London: Smith and Son, 1829.
page number: Mentioned: v. IX, p. 571, no. 27
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Hofstede de Groot, C. Beschreibendes und kritisches verzeichnis der werke des hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts; nach dem muster. Esslingen, Germany: a. N.: P. Neff, 1907.
page number: Reproduced: p. 518, no. 157; vol. 1
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Rudder, Arthur de. Pieter de Hooch et son œuvre. Bruxelles, Belgium: G. van Oest & cie, 1914.
page number: Reproduced: p. 101
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Burchfield, Louise H. "The Music Party by de Hooch, " The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XXXIX, no. 6 (June, 1952): 121-123
page number: Reproduced: p. 118
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Newark Museum. Old Masters from American Collections : [exhibition] the Newark Museum, November 22, 1955-January 2, 1956. Newark, N.J.: Museum, 1955.
page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 13
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Staring, Adolph. De Hollanders thuis, gezelschapstukken uit drie eeuwen. 's-Gravenhage, Netherlands: M. Nijhoff, 1956.
page number: Reproduced: p. 86, pl. X
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 447
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n82
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 126
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n150
William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, and Ralph T. Coe. Paintings of 17th Century Dutch Interiors. Kansas City: The Museum, 1967.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 5, p. 13, Listed p. 22
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page number: Reproduced: p. 126
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n150
Praz, Mario. Conversation Pieces; A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971.
page number: Mentioned: p. 184; reproduced: pl. 151
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Eikemeier, Peter. "Das Familienbildnis des Emanuel de Witte in der Alten Pinakothek." Pantheon XXXII (1974): 255-261.
page number: Mentioned: p. 260, n. 6
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Thornton, Peter. Seventeenth-Century Interior Decoration in England, France, and Holland. New Haven, CT: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 42, fig. 48; mentioned: p. 405, n. 48
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page number: Reproduced: p. 162
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n182
Sutton, Peter C. Pieter De Hooch (1629-1684). Thesis Yale University. 1979.
page number: Mentioned: v. 1, p. 51-54, 57; v. 2, p. 73-74, no. 54; reproduced: v. 3, p. 20, fig. 54
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Sutton, Peter C. Pieter De Hooch: Complete Edition. Oxford, UK: Phaidon, 1980.
page number: Mentioned: p. 28-30, 92, no. 53; reproduced: pl. XII, pl. 57
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The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
page number: Reproduced: p. 246; Mentioned: p. 247-248
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Broos, B. P. J., Edwin Buijsen, and Rieke van Leeuwen. Great Dutch Paintings from America. The Hague: Mauritshuis, 1990.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 36, p. 305-309
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Seaton, Douglass. Ideas and Styles in the Western Musical Tradition. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Pub. Co, 1991.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 172-173, fig. 13.1
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Ydema, Onno. Carpets and Their Datings in Netherlandish Paintings 1540-1700. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Antique Collectors' Club, 1991.
page number: Reproduced: p. 52. fig. 45
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Fiero, Gloria K. The Age of the Baroque and the European Enlightenment. Dubuque, IA: Brown & Benchmark, 1992.
page number: Reproduced: p. 53, fig. 22
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Thomson, John Mansfield, and Anthony Rowland-Jones. The Cambridge Companion to the Recorder. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
page number: Reproduced: p. 82; Mentioned: p. 83
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Kersten, Michiel, Daniëlle H. A. C. Lokin, and Michiel Plomp. Delft masters, Vermeer's contemporaries: illusionism through the conquest of light and space. Zwolle: Waanders Publishers, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: p. 157; plate 152
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Wilschut, Arie Herman Josephus. Sporen: Geschiedenis Voor Havo 4/5. Groningen: Wolters-Noordhoff, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: p. 106, no. 17
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Peeters, Jan. The Royal Palace of Amsterdam in Paintings of the Golden Age. Amsterdam,, NL: Royal Palace, 1997.
page number: Reproduced: pl. 18a
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Sutton, Peter C. Pieter De Hooch, 1629-1684. Hartford, Conn: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Wadsworth Atheneum, 1998.
page number: Mentioned: p. 142-145
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Fiero, Gloria K. Faith, Reason, and Power in the Early Modern World. 3rd edition, New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1998.
page number: Reproduced: p. 6, fig. 22
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page number: Reproduced: p. 37
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Vries, Jan de. "Luxury and Calvinism/Luxury and Capitalism: Supply and Demand for Luxury Goods in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic." The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 57 (1999): 73-85.
page number: Reproduced: p. 79, fig. 5
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Alpers, Svetlana. "De Hooch: A View with a Room." Art in America: An Illustrated Magazine 87, no. 6 (June 1999): 92-99.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 97-98
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