Portrait of a Family Playing Music
1663
Pieter de Hooch
Pieter de Hooch (Dutch, 1629–1684)
European Painting and Sculpture
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 During this period, the Dutch Republic was the richest, most urbanized nation.
- Maker/Artist
- Hooch, Pieter de
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower left: "P D HOOCH/ 63"
- Departments
- European Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1951.355
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Exhibitions
- Dutch Painting, The Golden Age, Old Masters from American Collections, 25th Anniversary Exhibition, In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Paintings of 17th Century Dutch Interiors, Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century, Lutes, Lovers, and Lyres: Musical Imagery in the Collection, Hollandse Meesters uit Ametrika (Great Dutch Paintings in America), Delft Masters: Vermeer's Contemporaries, Pieter de Hooch, Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Asia in Amsterdam, Pieter de Hooch in Delft: From the Shadow of Vermeer, Delft Masters: Vermeer's Contemporaries, Delft, Municipal Museum Het Prinsenhof, March 1 - June 9, 1996: [ p. refs. in accompanying book, see under literature].<br>Giltaij, Jeroen. Senses and Sins: Dutch Painters of Daily Life in the Seventeenth Century (Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, c2004), p. 237, fig. 1.<br>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).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 215 French, German, and Dutch
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