Gallery Label Ochtervelt was a co-pupil of Pieter de Hooch under Nicolaas Bercham in Haarlem. He worked in his native Rotterdam from about 1655 to 1674, and then moved to Amsterdam. This typical scene of elegant domestic life was painted around 1670, when Ochtervelt was strongly influenced by Gerard ter Borch.
Provenance Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mendelsohn, New York (until 1980)
Exhibition History Dublin. National Gallery of Ireland. "Love Letters: Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer," October 1–December 31, 2003, no. 41.
Greenwich, Conn. Bruce Museum. "Love Letters: Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer," January 31–May 2, 2004, no. 41.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008, no catalogue.
References Walter A. Liedtke in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1980–1981 . New York, 1981, p. 44, ill.in Love Letters: Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer . Exh. cat., National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. Greenwich, Conn., 2003, pp. 193–95, no. 41, ill. (color).Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art . New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. 522–23, no. 134, colorpl. 134.
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