Hendrick Van Der Burch (1627-?)

Two Soldiers and a Girl with a Lute

Dutch, 1650-55
Oil on panel,  17 3/4  x 14 in. ( 44.5 x 53.5 cm.)

Provenance:
Frauenholz collection, Nürnberg

S. C. Michel, Mainz (before 1886, sale Berlin 27/2/1917 no. 30, pl. 30)

Dr. W. von Pannwitz , Berlin

Catalina von Pannwitz, Hartekamp (by descent )

Exhibited:      
Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, Bilder von älteren Meister,1886 (as Codde).

Mainz Stadttheater, Bilder aus Mainzer Privatbesitz,15/5-6/6/1887, no. 46 (as Codde)

Rotterdam Boymans Museum, Vermeer:oorsprong en invloed: Fabritius, De Hooch, De Witte, 9/7-9/10 1935 no. 32, fig. 36 (as De Hooch)

Literature:      
W. Bode, in Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, 10, 1887, 34

H. Thode, in Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, 10, 1887, 412

C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII Jahrhunderts 1907, I, no. 270

A.de Rudder, Pieter de Hooch, Brussels, 1913, 102

Clotilde Brière-Misme, Tableaux inédit ou peu connus de Pieter de Hooch, in  Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1927, 370, 376, ill. 367

M. J. Friedländer, Die Kunstsammlung von Pannwitz, I, Munich, 1926, no. 52

W.R. Valentiner, Pieter de Hooch, in Art in America, 1927, 68 n. I

Pieter de Hooch, Klassiker der Kunst vol.35, Berlin-Leipzig, 1929, 21

B.H. Collins Baker, De Hooch or not De Hooch, in The Burlington Magazine, 57, 1930, 198

P. Sutton, Pieter de Hooch, Oxford, 1980, 122, B9, fig. 173

The present painting was first attributed to De Hooch by Hofstede de Groot.

This was subsequently supported by Friedlander and Valentiner. Sutton listed it in his 1980 catalogue raisonné as a tentative attribution. He has subsequently ascribed the work to Hendrik van der Burch  brother-in-law of De Hooch who worked together with him in Delft in the early 1650s and painted similar tavern scenes (see Sutton, Hendrick van der Burch, in Burlington Magazine, May 1980, 315-326).