Johannes Vermeer

Illustration number 1001089194
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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 143 x 130 cm

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

signed and dated lower right: ivMeer./1656
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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.: dated 1656 (1656)
Created in: Delft (city)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: De koppelaarster
English title: The Procuress
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: genre, brothel scene, four human figures, matchmaker, young woman, prostitute, soldier, sitting, standing (position), behind a balustrade, background view of another room (interior), self-portrait, beret, doublet, hat with feathers, table, oriental carpet, roemer, glass in the hand, jug (vessel), cittern, coin, coat
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.: 33C53
match-making scene
48C7324
cithern, mandolin, guitar, balalaika

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
Quiringh van Brekelenkam, Kaartspelend gezelschap in een interieur
Vermeer took over the left part of the composition with a male figure at the extreme left in a hat and one hand slightly raised, the seated woman with her downward gaze and a standing man with his hat askew, the amorous and lascivious atmosphere and the grey back wall (Hillegers et al. 2016, p. 8).

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Wallenstein, Duchcov/Duchcov
- 1741
private collection August III (Elector of Saxony and King of Poland), Dresden
1741 - Liedtke 2008
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden - Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden , inv./cat.nr 1335

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Vermeer and the Delft School Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City , 2001-03-08 - 2001-05-27 , 66
Vermeer and painting in Delft National Gallery [London] , London (England) , 2001-06-20 - 2001-09-16 , 66
De jonge Vermeer Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis , The Hague (city) , 2010-05-12 - 2010-08-22 , 3
The young Vermeer National Gallery of Scotland , Edinburgh , 2010-12-10 - 2011-03-13 , 3

Literature

Hofstede de Groot 1907-1925 , vol. 1, p. 604-605, no. 41
Posse/Jähnig/Steinweg 1930 , p. 233, no. 1355
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 240
Blankert/Ruurs/van de Watering 1977 , p. 40-42, no. 3
Wheelock 1981 (Vermeer) , p. 15, 70-73
Blankert 1987 , p. 87-90, 171-172, no. 3, met afb. in kleur op p. 89
Wheelock 1997 , p. 14, ill. 4
Gowing 1997 , p. 84-88, ill. 4-5
Gaskell/Jonker 1998 , p. 47, 314
Liedtke 2000 , p. 188, 197-202
Liedtke et al. 2001 , no. 66
Rüger 2001 , p. 56, ill. p. 57
Neidhardt/Giebe 2004
Wright 2005 , p. 16-18, no. 7, ill. p. 17
Marx/Hipp 2007 , p. 569, no. 1335
Liedtke 2008 , p. 62-65, 194, no. 3, met afb. in kleur op p. 62
Buijsen/Broersma 2010 , p. 36-47, met afb. in kleur op p. 37
Hillegers et al. 2016 , p. 8

A. Blankert, Vermeer of Delft, Oxford 1978, nr. 3
J.M. Nash, Vermeer, London 1991, p. 50-53

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

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BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001089194)

Project: Connect Vermeer
Gerson Digital : Germany

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