Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 155
Waiboer A-115

Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 255-256, plate 217
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 451

Literature
Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 134
Adriaan E. Waiboer, Gabriel Metsu, New Haven and London, 2010, fig. 28
Adriaan E. Waiboer, with Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr and Blaise Ducos, Vermeer and the masters of genre painting, Dublin, Washington, Paris, New Haven and London, 2017, fig. 102
Reinier Baarsen, Kwab, Amsterdam, 2018, fig. 207

Exhibitions

2018 Kwab. Dutch Design in the Age of Rembrandt, Nr. 86
2013 Vermeer and Music. The Art of Love and Leisure, Nr. 9
2010 Gabriel Metsu, Nr. 22
1976 Art in 17th-century Holland, Nr. 71

Provenance

it is improbable that the present picture is to be identified, as HdG suggested, with that in the Lambert Witsen sale, Amsterdam, 25 May 1746, nr. 5, bought by Quinkhard, since the woman there is said to be in a satin dress, which is not the case here
[Michael] Bryan sale, London, 17-19 May 1798, 3rd day, nr. 28
collection of Lord Radstock
perhaps lent by (Sir) Robert Peel (Bart.) to the BI, 1823, nr. 75 or 1824, nr. 77
Robert Peel by 1833
National Gallery, London, purchased with the Peel collection, 1871
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External links

RKD 247287
National Gallery, London Accession number NG839

Other works by Gabriël Metsu

An Old Woman Preparing Herrings
1661/63

Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
1653

A Hunter Getting Dressed after Bathing
c. 1654-56

A Kitchen Maid Peeling Apples
c. 1655/57

A Young Woman Selling Poultry
1662