
An Elegant Company
Pieter Codde · 1632
Provenance
Ownership history
- George, Sixth Duke of Leuchtenberg (died 1912), by 1912 [according to New York 1912-1913]. Böhler and Steinmeyer; purchased by Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), 1914 [according to an invoice dated May 25, 1914 in curatorial file]; on loan to the Art Institute from 1925; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, The V. G. Fischer Art Galleries, Collection of Paintings by Old Masters of All Schools, 1912–1913, no. 38.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, Chicago, 1925, p. 159.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, Chicago, 1932, p. 179.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection, Chicago, 1961, p. 80
- Caroline Bigler Playter, Willem Duyster and Pieter Codde: The "Duystere Werelt" of Dutch Genre Painting c. 1625-1635 (PhD. diss., Harvard University, 1972), pp. 69-70, fig. 72.
- Peter C. Sutton, Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting, exh. cat., Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1984, pp. 178-179, fig. 1.
- Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America, Grand Rapids, 1986, p. 52.
- Renate Trnek, Die holländischen Gemälde des 17. Jahrhunderts in der Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wien, exh. cat., Vienna, Kunsthistoriches Museum Wien, 1992, p. 100 n. 7.
- Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk, Rubinglas des ausgehenden 17. und des 18. Jahrhunderts, Mainz, 2001, pp. 63–64, fig. 5.
- Pieter Biesboer and Martina Sitt, Satire en vermaak: Schilderkunst in de 17e eeuw: Het genrestuk van Frans Hals en zijn tijdgenoten 1610–1670, exh. cat., Haarlem, Frans Hals Museum, 2003, p. 25, pl. 19.
- Jochai Rosen, Pieter Codde (1599-1678): Catalogue Raisonnè, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2020, pp. 136-137, 302, no. 52.
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