Johannes Vermeer

Young Woman Interrupted at Music



Johannes Vermeer - Young Woman Interrupted at Music



Johannes Vermeer
Young Woman Interrupted at Music
c. 1658-59
39.3 x 44.4 cm
Oil on canvas
Unsigned
The Frick Collection, New York


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 27 info
Walter Liedtke, Vermeer, New York, 2008, nr. 9

Collection catalogues
The Frick Collection, an illustrated Catalogue, New York, 1968, Volume I, pp. 292-295 info

Literature
Walter Liedtke with Michiel C. Plomp and Axel Rüger, Vermeer and the Delft School, New Haven and London, 2001, fig. 166
Marjorie E. Wieseman, Vermeer's Women, New Haven [Conn.], 2011, fig. 59
Margaret Iacono, James Ivory, Vermeer's Mistress and maid, New York; London, 2018, fig. 2
Stephan Koja, Uta Neidhardt, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Dresden, 2021, p. 128, fig. 3, p. 131, fig. 3a (detail)
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 51


Exhibitions

2021 Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Nr. 5

Provenance

Pieter de Smeth-van Alphen sale, August 1, 1810, Amsterdam, nr. 57, sold to de Vries
Henry Croese sale, September 18, 1811, Amsterdam, nr. 45, sold to C.S. Roos
His sale, August 28, 1820, Amsterdam, nr. 64, sold to Brondgeest
Samuel Woodburn sale, June 25, 1853, London, nr. 128, sold to Francis Gibson, Saffron Walden, who died in 1858
Mrs. Lewis Fry (Francis Gibson’s daughter), Clifton
Lawrie and Co
With Knoedler
Frick, 1901
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External links

RKD 242586
Frick Collection, New York Accession number 1901.1.125

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