Johannes Vermeer

Illustration number 1001089201
Dimensions: 3553x4051 pixels
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Object information

Object category: painting
Support/medium: canvas, oil paint
Shape/dimensions: rectangle (portrait format) 45 x 39.9 cm

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

signed left center: IVMEER
IVM in ligature; on the frame in the background

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. 1662-1667 (1662 - 1667)

In the art historical literature this painting is dated variously to c. 1665-1666 (Wheelock 1997); c. 1665-1667 (Liedtke 2008); c. 1662-1665 (Franits 2015); c. 1665 (Libby/Wheelock, NGA Online Editions, accessed 2022-10-10)

Subject

Title Title of the art-work in Dutch: Schrijvende jonge vrouw
English title: A Lady Writing
Genre: undetermined
Keywords: genre, interior view, young woman, sitting, looking up, writing (activity), mantle, ermine (type of fur), pear-shaped pearl, bow (in the hair), letter (correspondence), quill pen, painting (depicted), casket, chair, table, table carpet, pearl necklace

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
Frans van Mieris (I), Jonge vrouw die parels aan het rijgen is
Vermeer adopted the figure’s pose, the positioning of her body in relation to the table and the chair, and the emphasis on the bows in her hair (as observed by A. Waiboer).
inspired by
Gerard ter Borch (II), Vrouw die een brief schrijft
Vermeer adopted the use of a single knee-length figure and the subject of a woman seated at a table, writing a letter (Liedtke 2008, p. 123).
inspired by
Gabriel Metsu, Briefschrijvende vrouw
Vermeer adopted the subject and the use of one single knee-length figure, the manner in which the figure looks up at the beholder and the painting in the background (Waiboer/Franits 2010, p. 36).

Provenance

Collection(s)

private collection Pieter Claesz van Ruijven, Delft
Pieter Claesz van Ruijven, Delft
- 1674 Liedtke 2008
private collection Maria de Knuijt, Delft
Maria de Knuijt, Delft; widow of Pieter Claesz van Ruijven
1674 - 1681 Liedtke 2008
private collection Magdalena van Ruijven, Delft
Magdalena van Ruijven, Delft
1681 - 1682 Liedtke 2008
private collection Jacob Dissius, Delft
widower of Magdalena van Ruijven
1682 - 1695 Liedtke 2008
private collection François-Xavier de Robiano (comte), Brussels
by descent to his heirs
1837 - 1906 Liedtke 2008
private collection John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York City
1907 - 1913 Liedtke 2008
private collection John Pierpont Morgan (Jr.), New York City
1913 - 1940 Liedtke 2008
Private collection
Sir Harry Oakes, Nassau, Bahamas
1940 - 1943 Liedtke 2008
Private collection
Lady Eunice Oakes, Nassau, Bahamas
1943 - 1946 Liedtke 2008
private collection Horace Havemeyer, New York City
1946 - 1962 by descent to his sons Harry Waldron and Horace jr.
National Gallery of Art (Washington), Washington (D.C.) , inv./cat.nr 1962.10.1
gift of Harry Waldron Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer Jr.
1962 -

Auction(s)

, Amsterdam (stad), 1696-05-16, lotnr. 35
Contributor: Jacob Abrahamsz Dissius
63

Liedtke 2008
Scheurleer, B. (The Hague (city)) 1808-11-07 - 1808-11-12, lotnr. 22
Contributor J van Buren
Muys, R. (Rotterdam (city)) 1816-04-20 - 1816-04-22, lotnr. 90
Contributor Cornelis Jan Luchtmans
70 HFL

Liedtke 2008
Lamme, Arnoldus (Rotterdam (city)) 1825-10-03, lotnr. 70
Contributor F. Kamermans
Name buyer : Lelie , 305 HFL

Liedtke 2008
Vries, Jeronimo de (Amsterdam (city)) 1827-04-05 - 1827-04-06, lotnr. 26
Contributor Hendrik Reydon
Barbé (Brussels) 1837-05-01 - 1837-06, lotnr. 436
Contributor F. de Robiano (Comte)
Name buyer : J. Héris , 400 BEF

Liedtke 2008

Exhibitions and literature

Exhibitions

Vermeer : oorsprong en invloed Fabritius, De Hooch, De Witte Museum Boymans , Rotterdam (city) , 1935-07-09 - 1935-10-09 , no. 86a
Masterpieces of Art New York World's Fair , New York City , 1939-05 - 1939-10 , no. 399
Great Dutch paintings from America Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco , San Francisco , 1991-02-16 - 1991-05-05 , no. 67

Literature

Hofstede de Groot 1907-1925 , vol. 1, p. 603, no. 36
De Vries 1948 , no. 19
Goldscheider 1967 , no. 20
Ungaretti/Bianconi 1967 , p. 28
Grimme 1974 , p. 77, no. 27, ill. 18
Blankert 1975 , no. 20
Wright 1976A , no. 16
Slatkes 1981 , p. 70
Wheelock 1981 (Vermeer) , p. 124-126
Blankert 1987 , p. 140, no. 20, ill. 22
Broos/Buijsen/Van Leeuwen 1990 , no. 67
Schulze/Jensen Adams 1993 , no. 85
Broos et al. 1995 , no. 13
Wheelock 1995A , p. 337-382
Wright 1995 , p. 38-39, no. 19, color ill.
Broos et al. 1995 , p. 156-157, no. 13, color ill.
Liedtke 2000 , p. 239-242
Liedtke et al. 2001 , p. 162-163
Sutton et al. 2003 , no. 38
Wright 2005 , p. 44-45, no. 19, color ill.
Liedtke 2008 , p. 122-125, 196, no. 20, color ill.
Waiboer/Franits 2010 , p. 36
Waiboer et al. 2017 , p. 122-127, no. 2.3, color ill.

W. Bürger, 'Van der Meer de Delft', in: Gazette des Beaux Arts (1866), nr. 40
V. Bloch, Tutta la pittura di Vermeer di Delft, Milaan 1954, 22
A. Blankert, Vermeer of Delft, Oxford 1978, p. 54, nr. 20
E.M. Gifford, 'Painting light. Recent observations on Vermeer's Technique', in: I. Gaskell, Vermeer studies, Washington 1998, p. 189-192
L. Vergara, 'Women, letters, Artistic Beauty. Vermeer's theme and variations' in: P.C. Sutton, cat.tent. Love letters. Dutch genre paintings in the age of Vermeer, Dublin (National Gallery of Ireland), Greenwich Connecticut (Bruce Museum of Arts and Science) 2003, p. 54-55

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Project: Connect Vermeer

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