(1623 Bruges before 1682) Interior with a lady and a gentleman smoking. Oil on canvas. 79.3 x 92.5 cm. Provenance:–Chaplin, art dealer, U.K.–Van der Schriek, Louvain.–Auction of the above collection, Brussels, 8.4.1861, Lot 36 (as Pieter de Hooch sold for 1 700 Francs to J. B. Foucart).–J. B. Foucart, Valenciennes.–Auction of the above collection, Paris, 12.10.1898, Lot 39 (as Pieter de Hooch sold for 4 700 Francs to Hoentschel).–Baron van Ittersum.–Auction of the above collection, F. Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 14.5.1912, Lot 131 (as Pieter Janssens Elinga, auctioned for 32 000 Francs to Sedelmeyer).–Consul H.C. Bodmer (1851-1916), Zurich.–via inheritance to H. von Schulthess-Bodmer, Schloss Au, Switzerland.–via inheritance to the current owner, private collection, Geneva. Literature:–Smith, J.: A Catalogue Raisonné of the work of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish and French painters, Londen 1829-1842, vol. IX, (1842),p. 569, no. 19 (as Pieter de Hooch.).–Havard, H.: L'art et les artistes hollandais, Paris 1879-1881, vol. III (1880), p. 99 (as Pieter de Hooch).–Hofstede de Groot, C.: 'De schilder Janssens, een navolger van Pieter de Hooch', in: Oud Holland IX (1891), pp. 266-296, p. 281-282, 292, no. 14 (as Pieter Janssens Elinga).–Hofstede de Groot, C.: A Catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, London 1908-1927, vol. I (1908), p. 541, no. 238, p. 569, no. 8 (as Pieter de Hooch and as Pieter Janssens Elinga).–Thieme U. / Becker, F.: Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. 18 (1925), p. 419.–Brière-Misme, C.: 'A Dutch Intimist: Pieter Janssens Elinga', parts I-IV, in: Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6. ed. vol. XXXI-XXXIII (1947-1948), pp. 89-102 (I), 151-164 (II), 159-176 (III), 347-366 (IV), I, p. 92, III, pp. 171-173, Fig. 8 (as Pieter Janssens Elinga).–Sutton, P: Masters of Seventeenth Century Dutch Genre Painting, exh. cat. Philadelphia/Berlin/London 1984, p. 203, no. 6.

Interieur mit einer Dame und einem Herren beim Rauchen.

Öl auf Leinwand.

79,3 x 92,5 cm.