Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot
Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot | |
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Artist | Pieter de Hooch |
Year | c. 1668–1672 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 79.5 cm × 66 cm (31.3 in × 26 in) |
Location | Private collection |
Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot (c. 1668–1672) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in a private collection.
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote:
113. THE FAVOURITE PARROT. Sm. Suppl. 6; deG. 50.[1] In the left-hand corner of a room stands a table with an Eastern carpet and a white cloth. Upon it are cheese, fruit, plates, and other objects. A young man with a slouch hat sits behind the table, drinking a glass of wine. Behind him is a chimney-piece; upon it stands some Chinese porcelain, and above it hangs a picture of a nude woman recumbent. In the right foreground there are bottles and glasses on a little table, and a silver dish on the floor. At a half-opened window to the left stands a young woman, in a red jacket trimmed with ermine, feeding a parrot, which looks out of its cage-door. The woman scratches the parrot's head with her left hand, and with her right soaks a crust in a wine-glass which a girl, standing more to the right behind the table, holds across to her. With her left hand this girl supports a little child who stands on a chair, watching the parrot being fed. A dog jumps up to the chair. By the window is a bird-cage; behind the parrot there is another picture on the wall. The colouring is cool and clear in tone. Canvas, 31 inches by 27 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (Supplement, p. 99) ; by Ch. Blanc, Tresor de la Curiosite, ii. 433-4.; and by Havard. Sale. Casimir Perier, Paris, April 18, 1838. In the collection of the Duc de Berri; brought to England in 1840 by Hume. Now in the collection of the Earl of Northbrook, in London.[2]
The child is wearing a valhoed, or falling cap, and the same child with falling cap can be seen in Hooch's Teaching a Child to Walk, while the interior itself was used for another scene with the same child pulling impatiently on the skirt of a maidservant:
This painting was sold by Sotheby's in 2012 for $3,666,500.[3]
See also
References
- ^ Comparative table of catalog entries between John Smith's first Catalogue raisonné of Hooch and Hofstede de Groot's first list of Hooch paintings published in Oud Holland
- ^ entry 113 for The Favorite Parrot in Hofstede de Groot, 1908
- ^ Lot 56 record on Sotheby's website
External links
- Interieur met drinkende man en twee vrouwen met een kind die een papgaai voeren, ca. 1668-1672 Sotheby's (New York City) 2012-01-26, nr. 56 in the RKD
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- List of paintings
- The Empty Glass (c. 1652)
- A Man with Dead Birds, and Other Figures, in a Stable (c. 1655)
- Two Soldiers and a Serving Woman with a Trumpeter (c. 1650-1655)
- A Woman and Two Men in an Arbour (1657)
- Merry Company with Two Men and Two Women (c. 1657)
- Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room (1658)
- The Courtyard of a House in Delft (1658)
- The Golf Players (1658)
- A Woman Drinking with Two Men (1658)
- A Woman with a Child in a Pantry (c. 1658)
- The Bedroom (Karlsruhe) (1658-1660)
- The Bedroom (Widener Collection) (1658-1660)
- Courtyard with an Arbour (1658-1660)
- A Dutch Courtyard (1658-1660)
- Group Portrait of an Unknown Family or Company (1658-1660)
- A Man Smoking and a Woman Drinking in a Courtyard (1658-1660)
- A Mother's Duty (1658-1660)
- Lady and Her Cook (c. 1660)
- A Woman with a Basket of Beans in a Garden (c. 1651-1661)
- Interior with a Woman Weighing Gold Coin (1659-1662)
- Interior with a Young Couple and a Dog (1662)
- Two Women Beside a Linen Chest, with a Child (1663)
- A Boy Bringing Bread (c. 1663)
- A Woman Peeling Apples (c. 1663)
- A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy (1660-1663)
- Woman Lacing Her Bodice Beside a Cradle (c. 1660-1663)
- Card Players in a Rich Interior (c. 1663-1665)
- Company in a Courtyard Behind a House (c. 1663-1665)
- The Council Chamber in Amsterdam Town Hall (c. 1663-1665)
- Going for a Walk in the Amsterdam Town Hall (c. 1663-1665)
- Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting (c. 1663-1665)
- Musical Party in a Hall (c. 1663-1665)
- Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid (1665-1668)
- Interior with a Mother Close to a Cradle (c. 1664-1670)
- The Maidservant (c. 1667-1670)
- Young Woman with a Letter and a Messenger in an Interior (1670)
- Interior of a Kitchen with a Woman, a Child and a Maid (c. 1668-1672)
- Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot (c. 1668-1672)
- Teaching a Child to Walk (c. 1668-1672)
- Woman Giving Money to a Servant-Girl (c. 1668-1672)
- Interior with a Man Reading a Letter and a Woman Sewing (c. 1670-1674)