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Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 84, 6 June 1913, Page 7

PICTURE SALE SURPRISE. Intense excitement wa.s caused at Christie's on April 11 when a little lark Dutch painting of an interior with figures. coming up for sale among many unimportant works liv the minor masters, was unexpectedly run up from 30gns to 4200gns. Messrs Christie themselves had apparently not thought very highly of it, as it was catalogued in small type under the name of S. van Hoogstraaten, and to the end of the sale many of the dealers and experts present could not account, for the price. But the supposed Hoogstraaten is a very fine and fully signed work of a far greater master—namely, Pieter de Hoogh. It is fully described as such in Hofstede de Groot's new edition of Smith's Catalogue Ra-isonne. where it is traced bak to a sale at Amsterdam in 1792. It was sold again at Amsterdam in 1842, and finally in 1845 for 800 florins, the purchaser being a Mr Burton, Had not the true nature of the picture been recognised by two, or perhaps three, experts it might have been knocked down for about a twentieth of the amount actually realised. Pieter de Hoogh (about 1629-1678) is the Dutch painter whose little masterpieces, influenced by the contemporary art of Rembrandt in a wider field, illustrate the painter's delight in the intimate beauties of cottage interiors or the limited open air of courtyards and narrow streets. Three of his pictures are in the National Gallery—one called "Woman and Child" and another ''Lady and Child in a Courtyard."

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