Johannes Vermeer

Allegory of the faith



Johannes Vermeer - Allegory of the faith



Johannes Vermeer
Allegory of the faith
c. 1670-72
114.3 x 88.9 cm
Oil on canvas
Unsigned
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 2 info
Walter Liedtke, Vermeer, New York, 2008, nr. 32

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 206 info

Literature
Madlyn Millner Kahr, Dutch painting in the seventeenth century, New York, NY, 1993, fig. 218
Pierre Rosenberg, Only in America, Milano, 2006, pp. 118-119
Ildikó Ember (ed.), Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age, Budapest, 2014, p. 96 fig. 11
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 18
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 90



Provenance

Herman Stoffelsz van Swoll, Amsterdam, until d. 1698
his estate sale, Amsterdam, 22 April 1699, nr. 25
sale, Amsterdam, 13 July 1718, nr. 8
sale, Amsterdam, 19 April 1735, nr. 11
with David Ietswart, until 1749
sale, Amsterdam, 22 April 1749, nr. 152 to Ravensberg
private collection, Austria, in 1824
Dmitri Shchukin, Moscow, 1899
with Wächtler, Berlin, 1899, sold to Bredius
Abraham Bredius, The Hague, 1899–1928, on loan to Mauritshuis, The Haugue, 1899–1923, and to Museum Boymans, Rotterdam, 1923–28, sold to Kleinberger
with Kleinberger, Paris, 1928, sold to Friedsam
Michael Friedsam, New York, 1928–died 1931

External links

RKD 238478
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 32.100.18

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