Literature

Mariët Westermann, Art & home, Zwolle, 2001, fig. 21
Lyckle de Vries, Verhalen uit kamer, keuken en kroeg, [Amsterdam], 2005, plate 39
Anna Tummers, The eye of the connoisseur, Amsterdam, 2011, fig. 77
Stephan Koja, Uta Neidhardt, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Dresden, 2021, p. 179, fig. 18

Exhibitions

2021 Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Nr. 24
2017 Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry, Nr. 29
2011 Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence, Nr. 12
2000 Gerrit Dou 1613-1675 - Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt, Nr. 32

Provenance

Alte Pinakothek, Munich, by 1922
with D.A. Hoogendijk & Co., Amsterdam, 1930
Sir Henri W.A. Deterding, London/Rittergut Dobbin, until 1936
gift of Sir Henri W.A. Deterding to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1936
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External links

Museum Boijmans van Beumingen, Rotterdam Accession number 1186

Other works by Gerard Dou

The Young Mother
1658

The Hermit
1670

The Music Lesson

An Old Woman at Prayer before her Meal
c. 1645-50

An Old Woman Reading a Pamphlet