Signed and dated (lower right): E.De.Witte A[nno] 165[?]

London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Winter Exhibition," January 6–March 15, 1879, no. 89 (as "Interior of a Church," lent by Samuel Sandars, Esq.).

London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Winter Exhibition," 1908, no. 48 [see Ref. Manke 1963].

The Hague. Mauritshuis. "Terugzien in bewondering/A Collectors' Choice," February 19–March 9, 1982, no. 97 (as "Interieur van een gotische kerk").

Delft. Prinsenhof. "Delft Masters, Vermeer's Contemporaries," March 1–June 2, 1996, unnumbered cat. (fig. 45).

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Vermeer's Masterpiece 'The Milkmaid'," September 9–November 29, 2009, no. 12.

Hans Jantzen. Das Niederländische Architekturbild. Leipzig, 1910, p. 175, no. 614, as "Kircheninneres," lent to the 1879 London exhibition.

Dutch and Flemish Old Masters in the Collection of Dr. C. J. K. van Aalst, Huis-te-Hoevelaken, Holland. Verona, 1939, p. 318, pl. 75 [see Refs. Manke 1963 and Liedtke 2001, and Exh. The Hague 1982].

Ed. Trautscholdt in Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler. 36, Leipzig, 1947, p. 124.

Ilse Manke. Emanuel de Witte, 1617–1692. Amsterdam, 1963, pp. 16, 31, 40, 82, no. 18, fig. 21, as "Delfter Oude Kerk"; reads the date as 1654.

Lyckle de Vries. "Gerard Houckgeest." Jahrbuch der Hamburger Kunstsammlungen 20 (1975), p. 54 n. 29, concurs with Manke [see Ref. 1963] that the date is 1654.

Walter A. Liedtke. Architectural Painting in Delft: Gerard Houckgeest, Hendrick van Vliet, Emanuel de Witte. Doornspijk, The Netherlands, 1982, p. 83, 115, no. 244, fig. 75, prefers a reading of the date as 1650.

Daniëlle H. A. C. Lokin in Delft Masters, Vermeer's Contemporaries. Exh. cat., Prinsenhof, Delft. Zwolle, The Netherlands, 1996, pp. 61, 86 n. 26, p. 224, fig. 45 (color), dates it 1650.

Walter Liedtke. A View of Delft: Vermeer and his Contemporaries. Zwolle, The Netherlands, 2000, p. 126, fig. 159, colorpl. 10, as in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Michal Hornstein, Montreal; dates it 1650 in the caption to the colorplate and 1650(?) in the caption to the figure.

Walter Liedtke et al. Vermeer and the Delft School. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2001, pp. 32, 83, 105, 137, 255, 258, 272, 342, 370, 432–34, 568 n. 59, no. 91, ill. (color), dates it ca. 1650–52.

Walter Liedtke. "Recent Acquisitions, A Selection: 2001–2002." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 60 (Fall 2002), p. 21, ill. (color), dates it 1650–52.

Walter Liedtke. Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 922, 964–70, no. 222, colorpl. 222, figs. 273–75 (overall, x-radiograph, and color detail).

Esmée Quodbach. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 65 (Summer 2007), pp. 64–65, 71, figs. 79 (color), 82 (color, MMA Vermeer gallery photograph).

Walter Liedtke. Vermeer: The Complete Paintings. Antwerp, 2008, p. 99, figs. 13 a–b (color, overall and detail).

Peter C. Sutton. Vermeer and the Delft Style. Exh. cat., Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. [Tokyo], 2008, p. 27, fig. 10.

Walter Liedtke. "The Milkmaid" by Johannes Vermeer. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2009, pp. 20, 35, no. 12, colorpl. 12.

Karen Rosenberg. "A Humble Domestic Crosses the Sea." New York Times (September 11, 2009), p. C29.