Johannes Vermeer

Woman with a Lute



Johannes Vermeer - Woman with a Lute



Johannes Vermeer
Woman with a Lute
c. 1662-63
51.4 x 45.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Unsigned
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG -
Walter Liedtke, Vermeer, New York, 2008, nr. 14

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 204 info

Literature
Marjorie E. Wieseman, Vermeer's Women, New Haven [Conn.], 2011, fig. 22
Esmée Quodbach (ed.), Holland's Golden Age in America, University Park, Pennsylvania, 2014, fig. 41
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 66



Provenance

sale, Philippus van der Schley and Daniel du Pré, Roos, de Vries, Brondgeest, Amsterdam, 22 December 1817, nr. 62, to Coclers
private collection, England, sold to Huntington
Collis P. Huntington, New York, until d. 1900
life interest to his widow, Arabella D. Huntington, later (from 1913) Mrs. Henry E. Huntington, 1900–died 1924
life interest to their son, Archer Milton Huntington, 1924–terminated in 1925

External links

RKD 242600
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 25.110.24

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Johannes Vermeer Mistress and Maid
Mistress and Maid
c. 1666-67

Johannes Vermeer The Geographer
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Johannes Vermeer The Letter Reader
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