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

The Love-Letter
1671

Portrait of François de le Boë Sylvius and his Wife
1672

Teasing the pet
1660

The sleeping officer
c. 1666

The doctor's visit
1667