Eglon van der Neer - The Reader



Eglon van der Neer
The Reader
c. 1665
38.1 x 27.9 cm
Oil on canvas
Inscribed lower right: GTB (monogram)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Friedsam Collection, Bequest of Michael Friedsam, 1931


Literature

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 132


Exhibitions

2011 Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence, Nr. 21

Provenance

Josua van Belle, until 1730
his sale, Rotterdam, 6 September 1730, nr. 83
Robbert de Neufville, Leiden, until 1736
his sale, Leiden, 15 March 1736, nr. 10
?J. Wijsman, until 1828
sale, Amsterdam, 24 November 1828, nr. 172
?Jean Bleuland, Utrecht
sale, Utrecht, 6 May 1839, nr. 342, to Engelberts
Messchert van Vollenhoven, until 1892
sale, Amsterdam, 29 March 1892, nr. 4
with Sedelmeyer, Paris, in 1898
Max Wasserman, Paris, in 1898
with Kleinberger, Paris, in 1910
August de Ridder, Schönberg, near Cronberg in the Taunus, until died 1911
on loan to the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, in 1913
sale of his sequestered property, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2 June 1924, nr. 82, as by ter Borch
Michael Friedsam, New York, until died 1931

External links

RKD 246233
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 32.100.9

Other works by Eglon van der Neer


Eglon van der Neer Portrait of a young woman
Portrait of a young woman
c. 1650 - c. 1670

Eglon van der Neer Tobias and the Angel
Tobias and the Angel
1690

Eglon van der Neer Couple in an Interior
Couple in an Interior
1678

Eglon van der Neer Playing Children
Playing Children
1679

Eglon van der Neer Judith
Judith