RKD Research | Woman making lace in an interior, dated 1662

Artistic relationship: The Milkmaid
Netscher adopted the modest setting, the motif of a woman showing her as a silhouette starkly contrasted against the white plastered wall, the irregularities in the surface structure of this wall, the fine balance between the forms and the empty space, the fall of diffuse light coming from the left, the soft focus with which the artist observed his subject, the concentrated attitude of the woman and the stillness of the scene (Wieseman 2002, p. 57).
Woman making lace in an interior
Netscher adopted the subject, the use of a single full-length figure and the figure type in general (as observed by E. Schavemaker).
Woman making lace
Netscher adopted the use of a single, full-length figure, the subject and the motif of a painting or a print on the wall.
The Lacemaker
Vermeer adopted the subject of a young woman preoccupied with making lace, and the tactile sense of Netscher's painting, especially the structure of the white-plastered back wall (Waiboer et al. 2017, p. 197).
Lace working woman in interior

Collection(s): Jacob Vallensis

possibly
Catherina van der Dussen

probably
Johan Pompe van Meerdervoort

probably
until 1779
Pieter Cornelis baron van Leyden
probably
from 1780
Diederik baron van Leyden (III)

probably
3rd Marquess of Hertford

from 1804
Wallace Collection
, inv./cat.nr. P237
Auction(s): Delfos
, Een fraaye verzameling konstige en plaisante schilderyen, door de voornaamste meesters, waar onder zeldzaame en uitmuntende stukken : bij een verzameld en nagelaaten door wijlen den wel-edelen gestrengen heer Mr. Johan Pompe van Meerdervoort, 1780-05-19, lot number: 5

Buyer: A. Delfos on behalf of P.C. van Leyden
Paillet, Alexandre Joseph
, Auction at Paillet, Alexandre Joseph, Paris (city) (1804-11-05), 1804-11-05, lot number: 67

Buyer: A. Paillet on behalf of the Marquis of Hertford
Christie , Tabl. 97, Cur. 14, 1807-07-04, lot number: 86

not sold
Christie , Tabl. 190, 1808-03-11 - 1808-03-12, lot number: 90

not sold

Literature in RKDLibrary: Hofstede de Groot 1907-1925, vol. 5 (1912), p. 171-172, no. 48
erroneously as on panel
Lunsingh Scheurleer/Fock/Van Dissel 1986-1992, vol. 4a (1989), p. 168, 172, ill. 13
Ingamells 1985-1992, vol. 4, p. 245-247
Wieseman 2002, p. 176-177, no. 16, ill. 16
Hedley/Duffy 2004
Ribeiro 2017, p. 112, ill. 84 (color)
Waiboer et al. 2017, p. 197, color fig. 93
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Woman making lace in an interior, dated 1662