Johannes Vermeer
Christ in the House of Mary and Martha
c. 1654-55160 x 142 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left IVMeer (IVM in monogram)
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 1
Walter Liedtke, Vermeer, New York, 2008, nr. 2
Roelofs/Weber 1
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
Exhibitions
2010 The young Vermeer, Nr. 2
2001 Vermeer and the Delft School, Nr. 65
1995 Johannes Vermeer, Nr. 2
1992 Dutch Art and Scotland: A Reflexion of Taste, Nr. 71
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
Other works by Johannes Vermeer
Cavalier and Young Woman
c. 1657
c. 1657
The Lacemaker
c. 1669-70
c. 1669-70
View of Houses in Delft
c. 1658
c. 1658
The Kitchen Maid
c. 1658/60
c. 1658/60
Allegory of the faith
c. 1670-72
c. 1670-72