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    An Elegant Company
    Pieter Codde. An Elegant Company, 1632. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000719

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    An Elegant Company

    by Pieter Codde

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed on music sheet along left edge: P. Codde 1632

    Provenance

    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.

    Exhibition history

    New York, The V. G. Fischer Art Galleries, Collection of Paintings by Old Masters of All Schools, 1912–1913, no. 38.

    Publications

    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.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Pieter Codde (Dutch, 1599-1678)
    Date
    1632
    Medium
    Oil on panel
    Dimensions
    58.8 × 92.7 cm (23 1/8 × 36 1/2 in.); Framed: 84.8 × 118.1 × 6.4 cm (33 3/8 × 46 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on panel
    Style
    17th Century
    Place
    Holland
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1933.1069

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