Johannes Vermeer

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 46a
Walter Liedtke, Vermeer, New York, 2008, nr. 24

Collection catalogues
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr., Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century, Washington; New York and Oxford, 1995, pp. 382-387
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 402

Literature
Anna Tummers, The eye of the connoisseur, Amsterdam, 2011, fig. 9
Dagmar Hirschfelder, León Krempel (eds.), Tronies, Berlin, 2014, table 9
Margaret Iacono, James Ivory, Vermeer's Mistress and maid, New York; London, 2018, fig. 21
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 389
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 81

Exhibitions

2001 Vermeer and the Delft School, Nr. 74
1995 Johannes Vermeer, Nr. 14

Provenance

possibly Pieter Claesz van Ruijven, Delft
possibly his widow, Maria de Knuijt, Delft, 1674
possibly their daughter, Magdalena van Ruijven, Delft, 1681
possibly her widower, Jacob Abrahamsz Dissius, 1682
sale, Amsterdam, 16 May 1696
La Fontaine sale, Paris, 10 December 1822, nr. 28
Louis Marie, Baron Atthalin, Colmar, 1823
Gaston, Baron Laurent-Atthalin, Limay, Seine-et-Oise, 1856
his widow, Baroness Laurent-Atthalin, Paris, 1911
with Knoedler, London and New Yerk, 1925
Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, 1925
The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh, 1932
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1937, Andrew W. Mellon Collection

External links

RKD 219092
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1937.1.53

Other works by Johannes Vermeer

The Procuress
1656

Young Woman with a Wine Glass
c. 1659-60

Girl with a Pearl Necklace
c. 1663-64

Young Woman Seated at a Virginal
c. 1670-72

Diana and Her Companions
c. 1653-54