Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 112
Braun 251

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 196

Literature
Marjorie E. Wieseman, Vermeer's Women, New Haven [Conn.], 2011, fig. 43

Provenance

Jan Tak, Leiden
his estate sale, Soeterwoude, The Netherlands, September 5, 1781, no. 19, to Hoogeveen
Van Helsleuter [probably Van Eyl Sluyter], Amsterdam (until 1802)
his sale, Paris, January 25, 1802, no. 164, to Simon
Cardinal Joseph Fesch, Rome (until d. 1839)
his estate, 1839–45
his estate sale, Palais Ricci, Rome, March 17ff., 1845, no. 226, to Preston
Jules Porgès, Paris (in 1911)
with N. Beets Galleries, Amsterdam
H.E. ten Cate, Almelo, later De Lutte (near Oldenzaal), The Netherlands (by 1926–at least 1957)
Mrs. Myrtil Frank, New York (until 1964), sold to Linsky through the New York Hanseatic Association
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Linsky, New York (1964–his d. 1980)
The Jack and Belle Linsky Foundation, New York (1980–82)

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1982.60.31

Other works by Jan Steen

Tavern scene

Woman at her Toilet
c. 1661-65

The Fair at Oegstgeest
c. 1655-60

Girl Offering Oysters
1658-60

Winter Landscape
c. 1650