Johannes Vermeer

Christ in the House of Mary and Martha



Johannes Vermeer - Christ in the House of Mary and Martha



Johannes Vermeer
Christ in the House of Mary and Martha
c. 1654-55
160 x 142 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left IVMeer (IVM in monogram)
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 1 info
Walter Liedtke, Vermeer, New York, 2008, nr. 2

Literature
Madlyn Millner Kahr, Dutch painting in the seventeenth century, New York, NY, 1993, fig. 203
Anna Tummers, The eye of the connoisseur, Amsterdam, 2011, fig. 5
Marc Restellini (ed.), Ilone et George Kremer, Paris, 2011, p. 177, fig. 6



Provenance

Bristol family, by the 1880s
Bristol antiques dealer, 1884
Arthur Leslie Collie, London
Forbes and Paterson (art dealer), London, 1901
William Allen Coats, Skelmorlie Castle, Dalskairth, Dumfries and Galloway, 1901
his sons, Thomas H. Coats and J.A. Coats, 1926
Presented to The National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1927 in honour of William Allan Coats


External links

RKD 242325

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