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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
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00000719
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