Interior with a Woman weighing Gold Coin

Interior with a Woman weighing Gold Coin

Artist	Pieter de Hooch
Year	1659-1662
Dimensions	61 cm × 53 cm (24 in × 21 in)
Location	Gemäldegalerie, Berlin

Interior with a Woman weighing Gold Coin (1659-1662) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin.

This painting by Hooch was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote; "96. Interior with a Woman weighing Gold Coin. A woman stands in profile in a room, weighing gold coin. Her rich dress, trimmed with fur, suggests that she is the wife of a wealthy money-lender. It is a picture of rare beauty. Canvas, 24 inches by 21 1/2 inches. Sales, (Probably) Beckford, London, 1823 (£30:9s., Evans). Brun of Geneva, Paris, November 30, 1841, No. 20 (865 francs)."^[1]

The composition is strongly related to Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance.

References

↑ entry 96 for Interior with a Woman weighing Gold Coin in Hofstede de Groot, 1910

Woman holding a balance, ca. 1659-1662 in the RKD

Paintings by Pieter de Hooch

List of paintings

Two Soldiers and a Serving Woman with a Trumpeter A Woman with a Basket of Beans in a Garden The Empty Glass A Man with Dead Birds, and Other Figures, in a Stable A Woman and Two Men in an Arbour Merry company with two men and two women The Golf Players A Woman Drinking with Two Men Cardplayers in a Sunlit Room A Woman with a Child in a Pantry A Dutch Courtyard Group portrait of an unknown family or company The Bedroom (Karlsruhe) The Bedroom (Widener Collection) A Mother's Duty Courtyard with an Arbour The Courtyard of a House in Delft A Man Smoking and a Woman Drinking in a Courtyard Interior with a Woman weighing Gold Coin Lady and her Cook A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy Woman Lacing Her Bodice Beside a Cradle Interior with a Young Couple and a Dog Company in a courtyard behind a house Going for a Walk in the Amsterdam Town Hall¨ A Woman Peeling Apples Two Women Beside a Linen Chest, with a Child A Boy Bringing Bread The Council Chamber in Amsterdam Town Hall Musical Party in a Hall Mother with a Child and a Chambermaid Interior with a Mother close to a Cradle The Maidservant Teaching a Child to Walk Interior of a Kitchen with a Woman, a Child and a Maid Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot Woman giving Money to a Servant-Girl Young woman with a letter and a messenger in an interior

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