Frans van Mieris the Elder
A Young Woman Writing a Letter
c. 167018.5 x 14.7 cm
Oil on panel
Signed on the edge of the table, lower left corner: Fvan Mieris
The Leiden Collection, New York
Provenance
Gerard Bicker van Zwieten II (1687–1753), The Hague
his sale, The Hague, 12 April 1741, nr. 65 (to Rottermond)
François Tronchin (1704–98), Geneva, by 1761 (to Catherine the Great)
Catherine the Great (1729–96), Empress of Russia, St. Petersburg, 1770
by descent to her son, Paul I (Pavel Petrovich) (1754–1801), Emperor of Russia
Imperial Gallery of the Hermitage Museum
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, until being sold in 1929
with D. Katz, Dieren, 1938
Frans Joseph ten Bos (1878–1958), Almelo
his sale, Paul Brandt, Amsterdam, 24 June 1959, nr. 14 (to Ortman for 6,000 guilders)
sale, Christie’s, Amsterdam, 13 November 1995, nr. 148 (for 80,500 guilders)
Rémy Knafou (b. 1948), Paris, by 2003
with Johnny Van Haeften, Ltd., London
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2021
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Other works by Frans van Mieris the Elder
Portrait of a Twenty-Five-Year-Old Woman
1669
1669
Young Woman Stringing Pearls
1658
1658
Elderly Couple in an Interior
c. 1650-55
c. 1650-55
Woman Reading and a Man Seated at a Table
1676
1676
Man Tuning a Violin
1680
1680