Frans van Mieris the Elder

Literature

Collection catalogues
Compiled by Quentin Buvelot, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague; Zwolle, 2004, pp. 204-205

Literature
Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 117 (depicted mirrored)
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, fig. 183
Stephan Koja, Uta Neidhardt, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Dresden, 2021, p. 85, fig. 14
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 40
Pennen over penselen, Den Haag; Zwolle, 2022, pp. 240-241

Exhibitions

2021 Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Nr. 44
2017 Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry, Nr. 37
2005 Frans van Mieris 1635-1681: Painted Perfection, Nr. 26

Provenance

Elector Johann Wilhelm of Pfalz-Neuburg, Düsseldorf and Mannheim, until 1716
by descent to King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Munich, 1868
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 1925-1931
D.A. Hoogendijk Gallery, Amsterdam, 1931
gift of Sir Henri W.A. Deterding, London, 1936
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External links

RKD 24872
Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 819

Other works by Frans van Mieris the Elder

Portrait of François de le Boë Sylvius and his Wife
1672

The sleeping officer
c. 1666

Teasing the pet
1660

The doctor's visit
1667

The letter writer
1680