Johannes Vermeer

Illustration number 1001283789
Dimensions: 524x650 pixels
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Illustration number 1001089184
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Illustration number 0000130359
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Illustration number 0000156291
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Illustration number 0000130335
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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 25.1 x 20 cm

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. 1670-1672 (1670 - 1672)

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

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Jonge vrouw aan een virginaal
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.: Woman in Yellow
English title: Young woman seated at a virginal
Genre: genre
Keywords: genre, interior view, one human figure, young woman, knee-length portrait, sitting, head to the left, making music, spinet, sheet music, ringlets at the temples, chair, pearl necklace
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.: 48C752
one person playing an instrument
48C7331
spinet, virginal

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
Gerard Dou, Jonge vrouw aan een klavichord
Vermeer repeated the key elements from Dou's composition: the woman seated at a keyboard, glancing coyly outward. (Bergvelt/Jonker 2016, p. 72; Waiboer et al. 2017, p. 139)
inspired by
Gabriel Metsu, Jonge vrouw aan het virginaal
Vermeer adopted the subject and the use of a single, knee-length figure, facing left and depicted close the picture plane. (as observed by A. Waiboer)

Provenance

Collection(s)

Private collection
possibly Pieter van Ruijven, Delft
- 1674
Private collection
possibly Maria de Knuijt, Delft; widow of Pieter van Ruijven
1674 - 1681
Private collection
possibly Magdalena van Ruijven, Delft; daughter of Pieter van Ruijven
1681 - 1682
private collection Jacob Dissius, Delft
possibly Jacob Dissius; widower of Magdalena van Ruijven
1682 - 1695
private collection Alfred Beit, London/Kaapstad
1890 - 1904 possibly acquired in 1890
private collection Otto Beit (Sir), London
1906 -
private collection Alfred Beit (Sir), Russborough House, Co, Wicklow, Ireland
- 1960
private collection Baron Frédéric Rolin, Brussels
1960 - 2004-07 sold by the heirs 2004
private collection Steve Wynn, Las Vegas (Nevada)
2004-07 -
Otto Naumann Ltd., New York City
The Leiden Collection, New York City , inv./cat.nr JVe-100
2004 - acquired from Otto Naumann Ltd.

Auction(s)

, Amsterdam (stad), 1696-05-16, lotnr. 37
Contributor: Jacob Dissius
42

Liedtke 2008
Schley, Philippus van der (Amsterdam (city)) 1814-09-21, lotnr. 93
Contributor Wessel Ryers
Name buyer : Gruyter
Sotheby's (London (England)) 2004-07-07, afb. kleurenreproductie, lotnr. 8
Contributor erven Rolin
Name buyer : Steve Wynn , 16,245,600 GBP

Sotheby's sale results , with provenance and literature

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Vermeer's women " secrets and silence Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge (England) , 2011-10-05 - 2012-01-15 , p. 208-209, no. 28
Vermeer and music : the art of love and leisure National Gallery [London] , London (England) , 2013-06-26 - 2013-09-08 , p. 70-71, no. 25

Literature

Hofstede de Groot 1907-1925 , vol. 1, p. 592-293, no. 24
Hale 1913 , p. 275
De Vries 1939 , p. 95, no. 43
De Vries 1948 , p. 65, 98
Swillens 1950 , p. 63, 108, 154, no. 30
Goldscheider 1967 , no. 33
Wright 1976A , p. 15, 69
Wheelock 1981 (Vermeer) , p. 45
Gaskell/Jonker 1998 , B. Broos, 'Vermeer: Malice and misconception', p. 19-33
Liedtke 2000 , p. 294, nr. 252
Liedtke et al. 2001 , p. 403, 406, no. 11
Wright 2005 , p. 98, no. 40, with ill. in color on p. 99
Liedtke 2008 , p. 175-177, 198, no. 36, with ill. in color on p. 175
Wieseman/Franits/Chapman 2011 , p. 208, fig. 28
Bergvelt/Jonker 2016 , p. 72, under DPG56 (Gerad Dou; RKD, no. 250405)
Waiboer et al. 2017 , p. 135-139, no. 4.3, color ill.
Bergvelt/Jonker 2021 , in entry Gerard Dou, Related works, no. 14, fig. 13, note 42

Sotheby's, Old master paintings, Part one, London, 7 juli 2004, p. 24-45, nr. 8
L. Sheldon, 'Johannes Vermeer's "Young woman seated ar a virginal" ', The Burlington Magazine 148 (2006), p. 89-97
M. Jonker and E. Bergvelt, Catalogue of Dulwich Picture Gallery. Dutch, Flemish and German Schools, with addenda to the British School, published online as a RKD Study on 18 March 2021 [an enlarged version of Jonker & Bergvelt 2016], under DPG56 (Gerad Dou; RKD, no. 250405), Related works, no. 14, fig. 13, note 42

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001283789)
BD/Digital Collection (img.nr. 1001089184)
, Original location BD/RKD/0558 - ONS/Genre 2: General (img.nr. 0000130359)
, Original location BD/RKD/0558 - ONS/Genre 2: General (img.nr. 0000156291)
, Original location BD/RKD/0558 - ONS/Genre 2: General (img.nr. 0000130335)

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.

2 hits in RKD technical, relating to:

Technical examination type

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: W.A. Liedtke and A.K. Wheelock Jr., 'Young Woman Seated at a Virginal', in: A.K. Wheelock Jr. (ed.), The Leiden Collection Catalogue, New York (accessed April 2020)
in Bergvelt/Jonker 2021, in entry Gerard Dou

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