Johannes Vermeer

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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 114.3 x 88.9 cm

Current attribution: Johannes Vermeer
Rejected attribution: Eglon van der Neer
acquired as such by Dmitry Shchukin in 1899; recognized as by Vermeer upon restoration in the Mauritshuis

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. 1670-1674 (1670 - 1674)

c. 1671-1674 (Wheelock 1997); c. 1670-1672 (Liedtke 2008); c. 1672-1674 (Franits 2015)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Allegorie op het katholieke geloof
English title: Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: allegory, one human figure, woman, sitting, painting (depicted), table, chair, globe, crucifix, chalice, book, Bible, snake, stone (worked rock), drapery (representation), oriental carpet, crystal ball, apple, pearl necklace, beam ceiling, checkered stone floor
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.: 11M31
Faith, 'Fides'; 'Fede', 'Fede catholica', 'Fede christiana', 'Fede christiana catholica' (Ripa) ~ one of the Three Theological Virtues

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
Gabriel Metsu, Interieur van een schildersatelier met een kunstenaar die een vrouw met een viola da gamba schildert
Vermeer adopted the motif of an allegorical woman, depicted in full-length and seated on a ‘zoldertje’, in an unbalanced pose and the curtain to emphasize the artificial nature of the scene (as observed by E. Schavemaker).
inspired by
Gabriel Metsu, Interieur van een schilderatelier met een kunstenaar die een vrouw met een viola da gamba schildert
Vermeer adopted the motif of an allegorical woman represented full-length and seated on a ‘zoldertje’, in an unbalanced pose and the curtain to emphasize the artificial nature of the scene (as observed by E. Schavemaker).
contains artwork by
Jacques Jordaens, De kruisiging
Vermeer most likely owned the painting by Jordaens (Liedtke 2008)

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Harman van Swol, Amsterdam
- 1698 Liedtke 2008
Private collection
David Ietswaart
- 1749 Liedtke 2008
private collection Dmitry Ivanovich Shchukin, Moscow
1899 bought as a painting by Eglon van der Neer; not appreciated by art critics and thus sold by Shchukin in the same year to an art dealer in Berlin
private collection Abraham Bredius, The Hague
1899 - 1928 given on loan to the Mauritshuis 1899-1923; given on loan to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 1923-1928; sold to Kleinberger, Paris
Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis, The Hague
1899 - 1923 given on loan by Abraham Bredius
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
1923 - 1928 given on loan by Abraham Bredius
F. Kleinberger Galleries, Paris/New York/London
1928 sold to Friedsam, New York
private collection Michael Friedsam, New York City
1928 - 1931 bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1931
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City , inv./cat.nr 32.100.18
bequest Michael Friedsam
1931 -

Auction(s)

, Amsterdam (stad), 1699-04-22, lotnr. 25
Contributor: Herman Stoffelsz Swoll
400

Liedtke 2008
, Amsterdam (stad), 1718-07-13, lotnr. 8
500

Liedtke 2008
, Amsterdam (stad), 1735-04-19, lotnr. 11
53

Liedtke 2008
, Amsterdam (stad), 1749-04-22, lotnr. 152
Name buyer : Ravensberg, 70

Liedtke 2008

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Prisma der bijbelse kunst [1e uitgave] Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof , Delft (city) , 1952-05-17 - 1952-08-12 , no. 324
Johannes Vermeer [Washington, 1995] National Gallery of Art [Washington] , Washington (D.C.) , 1995-11-12 - 1996-02-11 , no. 20
Johannes Vermeer [Washington, 1995] Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis , The Hague (city) , 1996-03-01 - 1996-06-02 , no. 20
Vermeer and the Delft School Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City , 2001-03-08 - 2001-05-27 , no. 77
The age of Rembrandt : dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City , 2007-09-18 - 2008-01-06

Literature

Hofstede de Groot 1907-1925 , vol. 1 (1907), p. 587-588, no. 2
Blankert/Ruurs/van de Watering 1977 , p. 87-89, 162, no. 29, color ill.
Wheelock 1981 (Vermeer) , p. 148
Slatkes 1981 , p. 106-109
Blankert 1987 , p. 146, 200-201, no. 29, ill. 31
Broos et al. 1995 , no. 20
Wheelock 1997 , p. 66, ill. 33
Gowing 1997 , p. 153-155, ill. 71-73
Liedtke 2000 , p. 260-262
Liedtke et al. 2001 , no. 77
Wright 2005 , p. 94, 125, no. 38, color ill. p. 95
Liedtke 2007 , p. 893-902
Liedtke 2008 , p. 163-165, 198, no. 32, color ill. p. 163
Franits 2015 , p. 173, 213, 240, 257-268, 290, 315, color ill.

A. Blankert, Vermeer of Delft, Oxford 1978, nr. 29
D. Arasse, Vermeer. Faith in painting, Princeton 1994, p. 17-25, 83-86
C. Hertel, Vermeer: Reception and interpretation, Cambridge, New York, Melbourne 1996, p. 205-229
D. Arasse, 'Vermeer's private allegories', in: I. Gaskell (e.a.), Vermeer Studies, Washington 1998, p. 341-349

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001089217)
BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1000314571)
BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1000314568)

Project: Connect Vermeer

Technical documentation

The RKD manages a collection of technical documentation that has been given to us by external researchers and museums or which stems from the RKD's own research with infrared reflectography. Documentation can be accessed by appointment at the RKD. While not all technical documentation has been entered in the database at present, new data is added on a regular basis.

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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

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