Johannes Vermeer

Illustration number 0000200124
Dimensions: 4568x5091 pixels
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Illustration number 0000052866
Dimensions: 650x568 pixels
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Illustration number 0000052867
Dimensions: 650x568 pixels
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Illustration number 0000052868
Dimensions: 650x568 pixels
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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 45.5 x 41 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. 1657-1660 (1657 - 1660)

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

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: De melkmeid
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.: De keukenmeid
English title: The Milkmaid
Genre: genre
Keywords: genre, interior view, one human figure, domestic (servant), standing (position), kitchen, table, table carpet, ewer (vessel), jug (vessel), milk, bread, basket, footstove, fire pot, window, lappet cap
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.: 41C211
kitchen-interior
41C222
kitchen-maid, kitchen servant

Artistically related

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

used as model for
Gerard ter Borch (II), Interieur met een vrouw die appels schilt en een kind
Ter Borch adopted the combination of yellow, green and blue colors. (Waiboer et al. 2017, p. 200)
related to
Frans van Mieris (I), Jonge vrouw die parels aan het rijgen is
The pointillé highlights in Van Mieris’s painting resemble those in Vermeer’s Milkmaid. (Liedtke 2008, p. 45-6)
used as model for
Gabriel Metsu, Brieflezende vrouw en een dienstmeid in een interieur
Metsu adopted the use of a sunlit corner of a room with a window on the left, the structured white plastered wall, and the color combination of red, yellow and blue. (Waiboer et al. 2017, p. 115)
used as model for
Jan Steen, Boerenfamilie tijdens de maaltijd
Steen repeated the blue, yellow and white in the dress of the female figure and even repeated the apron's pattern of pleats. He also adopted the setting in a kitchen, with the preparation of food as the main motif, as well as the earthenware vessel and the motif of a table with a still life of kitchen utensils and food. (as observed by E. Schavemaker)
inspired by
Gerard Dou, Jonge vrouw, water puttend uit een bron
Vermeer roughly repeated the pose of the maid. He adopted the use of a knee-length figure, the use of an earthenware vessel to suggest an erotic double entendre, and elements such as the table in the left foreground with a softly lit still-life of food. (Liedtke 2008, p. 76-78)
inspired by
Gerard Dou, Jonge vrouw water gietend uit een kruik
Vermeer adopted the subject of a girl pouring from a jug, her pose, the use of a single figure, the window as a light source on the left, the motif of a piece of glass missing from the window, and a finely lit still life of food and kitchenware in the foreground. (Waiboer et al. 2017, p. 206)
used as model for
Jan Steen, Musicerende kinderen die een kat laten dansen
Steen adopted the plain setting, the peculiar colour combination of yellow, blue and red, the meticulous attention for the irregularities in the surface structure of the stone wall in the back and the sensitively rendered still-life-like objects, the feature of depicting objects hanging against the wall and roughly the pose of the woman, especially her arms. (as observed by E. Schavemaker)
used as model for
Caspar Netscher, Kantklossende vrouw in een interieur
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)
used as model for
Gabriel Metsu, Vrouw met een kind op schoot (Het zieke kind)
Metsu adopted the modest setting, the irregularities in the surface structure of the wall, the motif of a woman slightly tilting forward her head relatively close to the picture plane, her gaze directed on something she holds in her hands, the palette (especially the use of white, yellow, blue and red for the dress of the figures), the use of a figure shown to the knee and the motif of a table with a simple of a still-life of an earthenware bowl in the left foreground. (Waiboer 2012, p. 129)

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Pieter Claesz van Ruijven, Delft
probably Pieter Claesz van Ruijven, Delft
- 1674 Liedtke 2008
private collection Maria de Knuijt, Delft
probably Maria de Knuijt, Delft; widow of Pieter Claesz van Ruijven
1674 - 1681
private collection Magdalena van Ruijven, Delft
probably Magdalena van Ruijven, Delft; daughter of Pieter Claesz van Ruijven
1681 - 1682
private collection Jacob Dissius, Delft
probably; widower of Magdalena van Ruijven
1682 - 1696-05-16 sold May 1696
private collection Isaac Rooleeuw, Amsterdam
1696 - 1701-04-20 sold April 1701
private collection Jacob van Hoek, Amsterdam
- 1719-04-12 sold
private collection Pieter Leendert de Neufville, Amsterdam
1759 - 1765-06-19 reported before 1759 (Liedtke 2008); sold June 1765
private collection Lucretia Johanna van Winter, Amsterdam
1813 - 1845
private collection Hendrik Six van Hillegom (jhr.), Amsterdam
1845 - 1847
private collection jhr. Pieter Hendrik Six van Vromade, Amsterdam
1947 - 1908 sold by the heirs to the Rijksmuseum
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam , inv./cat.nr SK-A-2344
with support of Vereniging Rembrandt
1908 -

Auction(s)

, Amsterdam (stad), Dissius veiling, 1696-05-16, lotnr. 2
Contributor: Dissius
Name buyer : unknown, 175

Liedtke 2008
, Amsterdam (stad), 1701-04-20, lotnr. 7
Contributor: Isaac Rooleeuw
Name buyer : unknown, 320

Liedtke 2008
, Amsterdam (stad), 1719-04-12, lotnr. 20
Contributor: Jacob van Hoek
Name buyer : unknown, 126

Liedtke 2008
Cok, J.M. (Amsterdam (city)) 1765-06-19, lotnr. 65
Contributor Leendert Pieter de Neufville
Name buyer : Yver , 560 gulden

Liedtke 2008
Yver, Jan (Amsterdam (city)) 1768-04-18 - 1768-05, lotnr. 10
Name buyer : Van Diemen , 925 gulden

Liedtke 2008
Schley, Philippus van der (Amsterdam (city)) 1798-09-12, lotnr. 32
Contributor Jan Jacob de Bruyn
Name buyer : J. Spaan , 1550 gulden

Liedtke 2008
Schley, Philippus van der (Amsterdam (city)) 1813-04-12 - 1813-04-13, lotnr. 96
Contributor Hendrik Muilman
Name buyer : J de Vries on behalf of Van Winter , 2125 gulden

Liedtke 2008

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Katalogus der tentoonstelling van voorwerpen van kunst en nijverheid uit vroegere eeuwen Arti et Amicitiae , Amsterdam (city) , 1873 - 1874 , 142
Exposition Hollandaise (1921) Musée du Jeu de Paume , Paris , 1921-04 - 1921-05 , 105
Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900 Royal Academy of Arts (Londen) , London (England) , 1929-01 - 1929-03 , 302
Vermeer : oorsprong en invloed Fabritius, De Hooch, De Witte Museum Boymans , Rotterdam (city) , 1935-07-09 - 1935-10-09 , nr. 163
Masterpieces of Art New York World's Fair , New York City , 1939-05 - 1939-10 , nr. 398 en afb. 71
Masterpieces of art from foreign collections : European paintings from the New York and San Francisco World Fairs Detroit Institute of Arts , Detroit (Michigan) , 1939-11-10 - 1939-12-10 , p. 19
Masterpieces of art from European and American collections : twenty-second loan exhibition of old masters Detroit Institute of Arts , Detroit (Michigan) , 1941-04-01 - 1941-05-31 , p. 19 en afb. 62
Holländer des 17. Jahrhunderts Kunsthaus Zürich , Zürich (city) , 1953-11-04 - 1953-12-20 , nr. 171
In het licht van Vermeer Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis , The Hague (city) , 1966 , nr. 2 en afb.
Johannes Vermeer [Washington, 1995] Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen Mauritshuis , The Hague (city) , 1996-03-01 - 1996-06-02 , nr. 5, met afb., als ca. 1658-1660
Milkmaid by Vermeer and Dutch genre painting : masterworks form the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam Tokyo National Art Center , Tokyo , 2007-09-26 - 2007-12-17

Literature

Hofstede de Groot 1907-1925 , vol. 1, p. 594-595, nr. 17
De Vries 1939 , nr. 10
Blankert/Ruurs/van de Watering 1977 , p. 50-53, nr. 7, afb. 7
Slatkes 1981 , p. 32-35
Wheelock 1981 (Vermeer) , p. 86-89
Blankert 1987 , p. 94-98, nr. 7, afb. 8
Wheelock 1995A , p. 63-71, met afb. in kleur op p. 62
Broos et al. 1995 , nr. 5
Gowing 1997 , p. 109-112, afb. 16-17
Wheelock 1997 , p. 24, afb. 9
Liedtke 2000 , p. 131, 207-209, 210-213
Liedtke et al. 2001 , nr. 68
Rüger 2001 , p. 59, met afb. in kleur op p. 58
Wright 2005 , p. 20, nr. 9, met afb. in kleur op p. 21
Liedtke 2008 , p. 76-79, 194-195, nr. 7, met afb. in kleur op p. 77
Liedtke 2009
Waiboer et al. 2017 , p. 204-207, no. 17.2, color ill.
Nevitt 2017 , p. 326, ill. 10. 2 (color) and passim

P.J.J. van Thiel, All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1976, p. 572, nr. A 2344
A. Blankert, Vermeer of Delft, Oxford 1978, nr. 7
J.M. Nash, Vermeer, London 1991, p. 94-96
N. Costaras, 'A study of the materials and techniques of Johannes Vermeer', in: I. Gaskell en M. Jonker (red.), Vermeer studies, Washington (National Gallery of Art) 1998, p. 145-167, afb. 10
S. Avery-Quash, 'The Travel Notebooks of Sir Charles Eastlake', The Walpole Society 73 (2011) dl. 1, p. 553

Visual documentation

Visual documentation

Location image Location of the image in the visual documentation.

, Original location BD/RKD/0558 - ONS/Genre 2: General (img.nr. 0000200124)
, Original location BD/RKD/0558 - ONS/Genre 2: General (img.nr. 0000052866)
, Original location BD/RKD/0558 - ONS/Genre 2: General (img.nr. 0000052867)
, Original location BD/RKD/0558 - ONS/Genre 2: General (img.nr. 0000052868)
, Original location BD/RKD/0558 - ONS/Genre 2: General (img.nr. 0000052869)

Project: Dutch Public Collections Project
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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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