Johannes Vermeer
Study of a young woman
c. 1665-6744.5 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed upper left: IVMeer (IVM in monogram)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, in memory of Theodore Rousseau Jr., 1979
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 42
Walter Liedtke, Vermeer, New York, 2008, nr. 23
Roelofs/Weber 26
Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 205
Everett Fahy (ed.), The Wrightsman pictures, New York; New Haven, 2005, nr. 37
Literature
Dagmar Hirschfelder, León Krempel (eds.), Tronies, Berlin, 2014, table 11
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 80
Provenance
?Pieter Claesz. van Ruijven, Delft, until d. 1674
?his widow, Maria de Knujt, Delft, 1674–d. 1681
?their daughter, Magdalena van Ruijven, Delft, 1681–d. 1682
?her widower, Jacob Abrahamsz. Dissius, Delft, 1682–d. 1695
his estate sale, Amsterdam, 16 May 1696, possibly nr. 38, nr. 39, or nr. 40
?Dr. Luchtmans, Rotterdam, until 1816
his anonymous sale, Muys, Rotterdam, 20-22 April 1816, nr. 92
Auguste Marie Raymond, prince d'Arenberg, Brussels, by 1829–d. 1833
Arenberg family, Brussels and Schloss Meppen, Germany, 1833–1949
Engelbert-Charles, 10th duc d'Arenberg, 1949–55, sold through Seligman to Wrightsman
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York, 1955–79
Other works by Johannes Vermeer
A Woman Writing
c. 1665/67
c. 1665/67
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
c. 1662
c. 1662
A Maid Asleep
c. 1656/57
c. 1656/57
Young Woman Seated at a Virginal
c. 1670-72
c. 1670-72
The Glass of Wine
c. 1660
c. 1660