Johannes Vermeer

Illustration number 1001089179
Dimensions: 2181x2682 pixels
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Illustration number 0001113476
Dimensions: 1910x2359 pixels
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Illustration number 0001113477
Dimensions: 1930x2434 pixels
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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 54.3 x 44 cm

Signature/inscription Information about the signature, dating, inscription or any other mark on the front or back of the art work

signed lower left: I. v. Meer

Current attribution: Johannes Vermeer

Date Exact or approximate dating of the described art work; the search parameters adopted for this art work in this database, are found in brackets.: c. 1657-1661 (1657 - 1661)

c. 1657-1658 (Wheelock 1997); c. 1659-1661 (Liedtke 2008); c. 1659-1660 (Franits 2015)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Het straatje
Other (former) title Other title(s) or name(s) which the work of art has had, or by which it is also known. This sometimes involves rejected identifications of the subject or sitter.: Gezicht op huizen in Delft , Gezicht op de Penspoort in Delft
English title: The Little Street
Genre: cityscape
Keywords: cityscape, topography, four human figures, child, woman, housekeeping, playing, street, sidewalk, house, stepped gables (guide term), gateway (way through)
Iconclass code Iconclass codes and text contain specific scenes and names. An Iconclass code or notation is a code from the multi-lingual Iconclass system for subject retrieval. For more information about this system, see www.iconclass.nl.: 42F3
household chores
Depicted place In the case of topographical representations, i.e. identified exteriors or interiors, the location depicted is noted in this field: Delft (city)
: According to Professor Frans Grijzenhout Vermeer depicted the socalled Penspoort in the Vlamingstraat in Delft. (NRC, 19 november 2015)

Artistically related

Artistically related to other work Such as a preparatory studie, comparable composition, other version, or copy of the artwork in this record.

inspired by
Pieter de Hooch, Drinkend en converserend gezelschap
Vermeer adopted the outdoor setting, in particular the motif of an alley with a figure seated on the right hand side of an arched entrance (which he later painted out but which is still visible through the upper paint layers). (Franits 2015, p. 105)
inspired by
Pieter de Hooch, Twee vrouwen en een kind in een binnenplaats
Vermeer also situated the scene outside a house, he adopted the atmosphere with women engaged in household chores, accompanied by children, and the masonry walls with their nuances of textures and tone. (Liedtke 2008, p. 90)
used as model for

a copy of the same size in sale Wed. A. Kluytenaer-Raidk Amsterdam, 16-10-1849, nr. 57 (for fl. 3150,- to Cramer)

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Pieter Claesz van Ruijven, Delft
probably
- 1674
private collection Maria de Knuijt, Delft
probably (widow of Pieter Claesz. van Ruijven)
1674 - 1681
private collection Magdalena van Ruijven, Delft
probably (daughter of Pieter Claesz van Ruijven and Maria de Knuijt)
1681 - 1682
private collection Jacob Dissius, Delft
probably (widower of Magdalena van Ruijven)
1682 - 1696-05-16
private collection G.W. van Oosten de Bruyn, Haarlem
and his widow
1797 - 1800-04-08 acquired before 1797 (Liedtke 2008)
private collection Pieter van Winter, Amsterdam
1800-04-08 - 1807
private collection Hendrik en Lucretia Johanna van Winter Six (jhr.), Amsterdam , inv./cat.nr 161
and their heirs
1809 -
private collection jhr. J.P. Six van Hillegom, Amsterdam
private collection jhr. Pieter Hendrik Six van Vromade, Amsterdam
- 1905
Private collection
Willem Six van Wimmenum, Amsterdam
1905 - 1919
private collection Jan Six (1857-1926), Amsterdam/'s-Graveland
- 1921
private collection Henry W.A. Deterding, London/Rittergut Dobbin
1921
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam , inv./cat.nr SK-A-2860
gift of Sir Henry W.A. Deterding
1921-07 -

Auction(s)

(Amsterdam (city)) 1696-05-16, lotnr. 32 or 33
Contributor Jacob Dissius
Name buyer : unknown , 72.10 or 48 gulden

Liedtke 2008
Vinne, Vincent Jansz. van der (Haarlem (city)) 1800-04-08, lotnr. 7
Contributor widow of G.W. van Oosten de Bruijn
Name buyer : Pieter van Winter , 1040 gulden

Liedtke 2008
Vinne, Vincent Jansz. van der (Haarlem (city)) 1800-04-08, lotnr. 7
Contributor Oosten de Bruyn
Name buyer : Van Winter , 1040 gulden

Liedtke 2008

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900 Royal Academy of Arts (Londen) , London (England) , 1929-01 - 1929-03 , no. 316
Vermeer : oorsprong en invloed Fabritius, De Hooch, De Witte Museum Boymans , Rotterdam (city) , 1935-07-09 - 1935-10-09 , no. 83
Le paysage Hollandais au XVIIe siècle Orangerie des Tuileries , Paris , 1950-11-25 - 1951-02-18 , no. 98
Dutch pictures 1450-1750 Royal Academy of Arts , London (England) , 1952-11-22 - 1953-03-01 , vol.1 , no. 529, vol. 2, ill. 13
Dutch painting. The Golden Age (New York) Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City , 1954 - 1955 , ill. 7
Johannes Vermeer Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis , The Hague (city) , 1996-03-01 - 1996-06-02 , p. 102-107, no. 4

Literature

Hofstede de Groot 1907-1925 , vol. 1, p. 606-607, no. 47
Martin 1936 , p. 184, 186, 190, 393
De Vries 1939 , no. 8
Swillens 1950 , p. 93-96
Van Thiel et al. 1976 , p. 571-572, no. A 2860, ill.
Blankert/Ruurs/van de Watering 1977 , p. 53-59, no. 9, ill. 9
Wheelock 1981 (Vermeer) , p. 80
Slatkes 1981 , p. 37-38
Blankert 1987 , p. 102-108, no. 9, ill. 9
Wheelock 1995A , p. 49-53, color ill.
Broos et al. 1995 , no. 4
Wheelock 1997 , p. 20, ill. 7
Liedtke 2000 , p. 184, 220-221
Liedtke et al. 2001 , no. 69
Wright 2005 , no. 28, ill. 11
Liedtke 2008 , p. 89-91, 195, no. 11, color ill. , with full provenance
Grijzenhout 2015

A. Blankert, Vermeer of Delft, Oxford 1978, p. 36-40, nr. 9
K. Kaldenbach, 'Het Straatje' van Johannes Vermeer: Nieuwe Langendijk 22-26? Een kunsthistorische visie op een archeologisch en bouwhistorisch onderzoek', Bulletin KNOB 99 (2000), p. 238-249
S. Avery-Quash, 'The Travel Notebooks of Sir Charles Eastlake', The Walpole Society 73 (2011) dl. 1, p. 553
F. Grijzenhout, 'Het straatje van Vermeer: een plaatsbepaling', Bulletin KNOB 117 (2018) no. 1, p. 1-13, ill. 1 (color)

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001089179)
, Original location BD/RKD/0602 - ONS/Architecture: cityscapes (img.nr. 0001113476)
, Original location BD/RKD/0602 - ONS/Architecture: cityscapes (img.nr. 0001113477)

Project: Dutch Public Collections Project
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Technical documentation

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Research and restoration projects

scientific research Counting Vermeer: Using Weave Maps to Study Vermeer's Canvases, 2012 — 2017 1 hits
involved_persons: Richard C. Johnson Jr.; William A. Sethares; Walter Liedtke; Arthur Wheelock; Michiel Franken; Petria Noble; Sytske Weidema; Ige Verslype; Rob Erdmann

External links: this painting at the Rijksmuseum

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Creation date: 2002-11-12; Last modified date: 2021-12-08

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