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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
current location: 215 French, German, and Dutch
creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund
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culture: Netherlands
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, Cleveland, OH (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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (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, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973).
title: Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection
opening date: 1989-02-14T05:00:00
Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 14-June 11, 1989).
title: Hollandse Meesters uit Ametrika (Great Dutch Paintings in America)
opening date: 1990-09-25T04:00:00
Hollandse Meesters uit Ametrika (Great Dutch Paintings in America). Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands (co-organizer) (September 25, 1990-January 13, 1991); The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (co-organizer) (February 16-May 5, 1991).
title: Delft Masters: Vermeer's Contemporaries
opening date: 1996-03-01T05:00:00
Delft Masters: Vermeer's Contemporaries. Museum Prinsenhof Delft (organizer) (March 1-June 2, 1996).
title: Pieter de Hooch
opening date: 1998-08-26T00:00:00
Pieter de Hooch. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London , United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (August 26-November 15, 1998); Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT (organizer) (December 20, 1998-March 14, 1999).
title: Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2007-03-29T00:00:00
Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH (March 29-July 8, 2007).
title: Asia in Amsterdam
opening date: 2015-10-17T00:00:00
Asia in Amsterdam. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (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
* {'description': "Delft Masters: Vermeer's Contemporaries, Delft, Municipal Museum Het Prinsenhof, March 1 - June 9, 1996: [ p. refs. in accompanying book, see under literature].", 'opening_date': '1996-03-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Giltaij, Jeroen. Senses and Sins: Dutch Painters of Daily Life in the Seventeenth Century (Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, c2004), p. 237, fig. 1.', 'opening_date': '2004-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage (March 29, 2007 - July 8, 2007): "Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art"', 'opening_date': '2007-03-29T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'British Institution, London, United Kingdom (1829).', 'opening_date': None}
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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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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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"1993 Annual Report." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (1994): 143-218.
page number: Mentioned: p. 170
url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457
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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Connell, Timothy C., and Jackson J. Spielvogel. World Art Transparencies. Cincinnati, OH: West Educational Publishing, 1998.
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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Kühlenthal, Michael. Ostasiatische und europäische Lacktechniken: internationale Tagung des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Denkmalpflege und des Deutschen Nationalkomitees von ICOMOS in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, München, 11.-13. März 1999 = East Asian and European lacquer techniques : international conference of the Bavarian State Department of Historical Monuments and the German National Committee of ICOMOS together with the Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Properties, Munich, 11-13 March 1999. München: Lipp, 2000.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 27, fig. 1
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Westermann, Mariët, C. Willemijn Fock, Eric Jan Sluijter, and H. Perry Chapman. Art & Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt. Denver, CO: Denver Art Museum, 2001.
page number: Reproduced: p. 142
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Hollander, Martha. An Entrance for the Eyes: Space and Meaning in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.
page number: Mentioned: p. 156-157; Reproduced pl. XII
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Fiero, Gloria K. Faith, Reason, and Power in the Early Modern World. 4th edition, Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
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