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A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy
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A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy

c. 1660?1663
Pieter de Hooch visual detail
ArtistPieter de Hooch
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Market Intelligence

Observed sale facts, comparable evidence, artist index history and modeled research remain separate.

Public evidence
Last known price $63,600 Dealer sale · Jun 1, 1920
+255.3% vs previous observed sale
Matched price history · normalized USD · Foundry provisional
1919 · $17,9001920 · $63,600
$18K1919
$64K1920
Last known price$63,6002 matched observed sales
Observed median$40,750
Observed sales2
Artist index159.0
1920-06-01Dealer sale$63,600.00
1919-06-20Dealer purchase$17,900.00
Artist index contextLatest public build 159.0 · base 100 · n=1.Artist-level context is not an artwork valuation.

Comparable Sales

Same-artist public sales ranked by medium, creation year, dimensions and sale recency.

Evidence ranked
ArtworkSale dateHouseRealized USDMatch
Leisure Time in an Elegant Setting
1660 · Oil on canvas
1912-02-01—$40,000.0075%
Game of Skittles
1666 · Panel
1919-11-01—$70,000.0048%

Similarity score is descriptive evidence ranking, not a valuation model. Every row comes from the public-rights market boundary.

Provenance

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Exhibitions

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Sourced Overview Evidence

A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy is a painting by Pieter de Hooch, dated c. 1660?1663, made in Oil on canvas, with recorded dimensions 68.6 ? 53.3 cm (27 ? 21 in.). It is held by J. Paul Getty Museum under accession 84.PA.47. In a quiet domestic interior, a woman prepares bread and butter for a boy before school; the school building is visible through the open doorway.

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Evidence state

2 observed sales · 2 comparable sales · 1 structured provenance events · 0 structured exhibitions.

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