Pieter de Hooch

Anonymous sale, Amsterdam, van der Schley and Spaan, 23 August 1808, lot 69;

Where acquired by Van der Schley, for 100 florins;

Duc de Broglie, Paris;

With F. Kleinberger, Paris;

From whom acquired by A. de Ridder (1837-1911), Schönberg, near Kronberg im Taunus, by 1910;

On consignment with F. Kleinberger Galleries, New York, 1913;

Estate sale of A. de Ridder (ordered by the liquidator, M. Pons), Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 2 June 1924, lot 30;

Where acquired by F. Kleinberger Galleries, Paris, for 80,000 francs, and until 1929;

With Galerie Dr. Schäffer, Berlin, 1929;

With D. Katz, Dieren;

Cornelis Johannes Karel van Aalst (1866-1939), Huis-te-Hoevelaken;

Thence by descent to his son, N.J. van Aalst, Huis-te-Hovelaken, until at least 1962;

From whom acquired, or on consignment with, Cramer Oude Kunst Gallery (Hans Cramer), The Hague, by 1965 and until at least 1968;

With Brod Gallery, London, by 1969;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 July 1974, lot 42;

Where acquired by "B. German," for £15,000;

Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 6 May 1975, lot 80;

Dr. Hinrich Bischoff (1936-2005), by 1980;

Thence by inheritance.

New York, F. Kleinberger Galleries, The A. de Ridder Collection, 24 November - 15 December 1913, no. 34;

Berlin, Galerie Dr. Schäffer, Die Meister des holländischen Interieurs, April - May 1929, no. 35;

IJzendijke, Raadhuis IJzendijke, Hollands leven in de Gouden Eeuw, 30 June - 20 September 1955, no. 26 (lent by N.J. van Aalst);

Delft, Museum Het Prinsenhof, Meesterwerken uit Delft, 2 June – 15 August 1962, no. 20 (lent by N.J. van Aalst);

Laren, Singer Museum, Het Kind in de noord-nederlandse Kunst, 29 March – 2 June 1969, no. 22 (lent by Irene Brod);

Bremen, Kunsthalle, long-term loan, circa 1980 (lent by Hinrich Bischoff);

Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, long-term loan, by 1998 (inv. no. Dep. 832).

W. Bode, Die Gemäldegalerie des Herrn A. de Ridder in seiner Villa zu Schönberg bei Cronberg im Taunus, Berlin 1910, cat. no. 25;

W. Bode, The Collection of Pictures of the Late Herr A. de Ridder, exhibition catalogue, New York 1913, pp. 18, 49, cat. no. 34;

C.H.C. Baker, Masters of Painting, Pieter de Hooch, London 1925, pp. 6-7;

C. Brière-Misme, "Tableaux inédits ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch, III," in Gazette des Beaux Arts XVI, no. 781 (November 1927), p. 267;

K. Erasmus, in Die Meister des holländischen Interies, exhibition catalogue, Berlin 1929, pp. 18-19, cat. no. 35, reproduced pl. 12;

W.R. Valentiner, Pieter de Hooch, The Master's Paintings, Berlin and Leipzig 1929, pp. 87, 278, 302, reproduced;

H. Wichmann, "Die Meister des holländischen Interieurs," in Kunstchronik 2 (May 1929), p. 11;

Dutch and Flemish Old Masters in the Collection of Dr. C.J.K. Van Aalst, Huis-te-Hoevelaken Holland, J.W. von Moltke (ed.), Verona 1939, p. 170, reproduced pl. XL;

F. van Thienen, Pieter de Hooch, Amsterdam 1945, p. 44, reproduced p. 47;

Hollands leven in de Gouden Eeuw, exhibition catalogue, IJzendijke 1955, n.p., cat. no. 26;

Meesterwerken uit Delft, exhibition catalogue, Delft 1962, pp. 15-16, cat. no. 20, reproduced pl. 7;

"Notable Works of Art now on the Market," in Burlington Magazine 108, no. 759 (June 1966), n.p., reproduced pl. VI;

Catalogue of All Paintings by Old Masters, Collection 1966/1967, The Hague 1966, p. 11, cat. no. 13, reproduced;

Het Kind in de noord-nederlandse Kunst, exhibition catalogue, Laren 1969, cat. no. 22;

P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford 1980, p. 100, cat. no. 81, reproduced fig. 84;

C. Stukenbrock, in Das Kabinett des Sammlers: Gemälde vom XV. bis XVIII. Jahrhundert, E. Mai (ed.), Cologne 1993, pp. 133-134, cat. no. 52, reproduced;

Delft Masters: Vermeer's Contemporaries, Illusionism Through the Conquest of Light and Space, exhibition catalogue, M.C.C. Kersten and D.H.A.C. Lokin (eds.), Delft 1966, p. 168, reproduced fig. 166;

P.C. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684, exhibition catalogue, Hartford 1998, p. 138, under cat. no. 24, reproduced fig. 2;

R.J. Pokphanh, "The Proceeds of Prosperity: Images of Domestic Money Management and Exchange in Dutch Genre Painting in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century," Ph.D. thesis, University of Kansas, Lawrence 2009, pp. 156-158, reproduced fig. 3-27.