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Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot
Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot (c. 1668-1672) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is now in a private collection.
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote; "113. THE FAVOURITE PARROT. Sm. Suppl. 6 ; deG. 50. In the left-hand corner of a room stands a table with an Eastern carpet and
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Now in the collection of M. G. Helleputte, formerly Schollaert, in Louvain.
The same child can be seen in Hooch's "Interior with a Child Feeding a Parrot" and in "Teaching a Child to Walk":
The subject of a woman giving a coin to a servant was copied by Michiel van Musscher:
In the 20th century the painting came into the hands of the New York dealer Knoedler and was purchased in 1927 by Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch, and by