Signed (upper left): IVMeer. [initials in monogram]

Düsseldorf. location unknown. "Kunsthistorische Ausstellung," August 1904, no. 398.

Paris. Orangerie des Tuileries. "Dans la lumière de Vermeer," September 24–November 28, 1966, no. VII.

The Hague. Mauritshuis. "In Het Licht van Vermeer," June 25–September 5, 1966, no. VI.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Vermeer and the Delft School," March 8–May 27, 2001, no. 75.

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. "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions," October 24, 2008–February 1, 2009, online catalogue.

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

Gerard Hoet. Catalogus of Naamlyst van Schilderyen, met derzelver pryzen, zedert een langen reeks van Jaaren zoo in Holland als op andere Plaatzen in het openbaar verkogt. 1, The Hague, 1752, p. 36.

Lithographies d'après les principaux tableaux de la collection de S. A. S. Monseigneur le Prince Auguste d'Arenberg. Brussels, 1829, p. 10, no. 53.

W. Burger [Théophile Thoré]. Galerie d'Arenberg à Bruxelles. Paris, 1859, pp. 31, 34–36, 140, no. 35.

[Gustav Friedrich] Waagen. Handbook of Painting: The German, Flemish, and Dutch Schools. London, 1860, vol. 2, p. 352.

Charles Blanc. Histoire des peintres de toutes les écoles: École hollandaise. Paris, 1861, vol. 2, p. 4 of section on Vermeer.

W. Bürger [Théophile Thoré]. "Galerie de MM. Pereire." Gazette des beaux-arts 16 (April 1864), pp. 313–14.

W. Bürger [Théophile Thoré]. "Van der Meer de Delft (1er article)." Gazette des beaux-arts 21 (October 1866), p. 299.

W. Bürger [Théophile Thoré]. "Van der Meer de Delft (3e et dernier article)." Gazette des beaux-arts 21 (December 1866), pp. 543, 545.

Ronald Gower. The Figure Painters of Holland. London, 1880, pp. 67, 111.

Henry Havard. Van der Meer de Delft. Paris, 1888, p. 35, no. 2.

Corn[elis]. Hofstede de Groot. "Johannes Vermeer." Die Graphischen Künste 18 (1895), pp. 20, 22–24.

Th[eodor]. v[on]. Frimmel. "Zu Vermeer van Delft." Blätter für Gemäldekunde 2 (April 1906), p. 185.

C[ornelis]. Hofstede de Groot. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. 1, London, 1907, p. 601, no. 42.

Gustave Vanzype. Vermeer de Delft. Brussels, 1908, pp. 10, 41–42, 52, 67, 96–97, ill. opp. p. 96.

W[ilhelm]. [von] Bode. Great Masters of Dutch and Flemish Painting. London, 1909, p. 57.

Cornelis Hofstede de Groot. Jan Vermeer of Delft and Carel Fabritius. Amsterdam, 1909, pp. 21–23, 28, 30, pl. 29.

Alfred von Wurzbach. Niederländisches Künstler-Lexikon. 2, Vienna, 1910, p. 776.

Eduard Plietzsch. Vermeer van Delft. Leipzig, 1911, pp. 57–58, 115, no. 11, pl. XV.

N. N. Wrangell. "Jan Vermeer van Delft." Apollon 2, no. 1 (1911), p. 8, ill. opp. p. 10.

Georges Dreyfous. L'oeuvre de Jan Vermeer de Delft dit Van Der Meer de Delft (1632–1675). Paris, 1912, p. 29.

Philip L. Hale. Jan Vermeer of Delft. Boston, 1913, pp. 58, 240, 242, 333–34, 371–72, ill. opp. p. 232.

Georg Jacob Wolf. "Jan Vermeer van Delft." Westermanns Monatshefte 119 (September 1915), p. 73, ill. p. 70.

Max Eisler. "Der Raum bei Jan Vermeer." Jahrbuch der kunsthistorischen Sammlungen allerhöchsten Kaiserhauses 33 (1916), pp. 240–41.

Wilhelm von Bode. Die Meister der holländischen und vlämischen Malerschulen. Leipzig, 1917, p. 74.

A. E. Gallatin. "Vermeer of Delft." American Magazine of Art 8 (August 1917), pp. 388–90.

P. Johansen. "Jan Vermeer de Delft." Oud-Holland 38 (1920), pp. 195, 197–98.

E. V. Lucas. Vermeer of Delft. London, [1922?], pp. 26, 31, 43.

John C. van Dyke. Rembrandt and His School. New York, 1923, p. 172.

Wilhelm Hausenstein. Vermeer van Delft. Munich, 1924, pp. 24, 27, pl. 23.

Wilhelm von Bode. "Kunsthistorische Ausbeute aus dem Deutschen Kunsthandel von Heute: 2. Jan Vermeer van Delft." Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 47 (1926), p. 251.

Jean Chantavoine. Ver Meer De Delft. Paris, 1926, pp. 36, 44, 47, 59, 103.

Wilhelm R. Valentiner. "Zum 300. Geburtstag Jan Vermeers, Oktober 1932: Vermeer und die Meister der holländischen Genremalerei." Pantheon 10 (October 1932), p. 324.

Arsène Alexandre. "Nouveaux aperçus sur Vermeer." L'art et les artistes, n.s., 25 (February 1933), p. 164.

Philip L. Hale. Vermeer. Boston, 1937, pp. 51, 106, 134–35, 182, 227, pl. 41.

Eduard Plietzsch. Vermeer van Delft. Munich, 1939, pp. 28, 62, 64, fig. 27.

A. B. de Vries. Jan Vermeer van Delft. Amsterdam, 1939, pp. 9, 42–43, 84, no. 18, pl. 44.

Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. Washington, 1941, p. 209, under no. 55.

André Blum. Vermeer et Thoré-Bürger. Geneva, 1945, pp. 26, 30, 63, 120, 140, 158, no. 2, pl. 19.

A. B. de Vries. Jan Vermeer van Delft. London, 1948, pp. 13, 38, 86, pl. 15.

P. T. A. Swillens. Johannes Vermeer, Painter of Delft, 1632–1675. Utrecht, 1950, pp. 62, 105–8, 154, no. 29, pl. 29.

Lawrence Gowing. Vermeer. London, 1952, pp. 77–78 nn. 4, 6, pp. 134, 138, no. XVII, pl. 41.

André Malraux. Vermeer de Delft. Paris, 1952, pp. 119–20, ill.

Vitale Bloch. Tutta la pittura di Vermeer di Delft. Milan, 1954, p. 33, pl. 46 [English ed., New York, 1963, pp. 33–34, pl. 46].

Erik Larsen. "The D'Arenberg Vermeer Redivivus." Apollo 62 (October 1955), pp. 102–4, fig. 1.

"Fifth Vermeer On View at Museum." New York Herald Tribune (June 23, 1955), p. ?.

"Rare Art Work Put on Display Here." New York Times (June 23, 1955), p. 24, ill.

Helen Comstock. "The Connoisseur in America: A Little-known Vermeer." Connoisseur 136 (January 1956), p. 307, ill. p. 308.

Michal Walicki. Vermeer. Warsaw, 1956, p. 27, pl. 21.

Weltkunst 16 (March 1, 1956), p. 7, ill.

Cyril Connolly. "Style Rococo." Art News Annual 26 (1957), p. 108, ill. p. 122.

Ludwig Goldscheider. Jan Vermeer: The Paintings. London, 1958, pp. 37, 39, 141–42, no. 33, colorpl. 76.

Alfred Frankfurter. "Midas on Parnassus." Art News Annual 28 (1959), p. 42, ill.

Lawrence Gowing. Johannes Vermeer. London, 1961, p. 33, no. 83, pl. 83.

Germain Seligman. Merchants of Art: 1880–1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York, 1961, pp. 240–45.

Charles Seymour Jr. "Dark Chamber and Light-Filled Room: Vermeer and the Camera Obscura." Art Bulletin 46 (September 1964), p. 329.

Pierre Descargues. Vermeer: Biographical and Critical Study. [Geneva], [1966], p. 132.

Benedict Nicolson. "Editorial: Vermeer and the Future of Exhibitions." Burlington Magazine 108 (August 1966), p. 397.

Jean Paris. "Vermeer et ses personnages prisonniers de leurs rêves." Connaissance des arts 176 (October 1966), p. 88, fig. 7.

A. B. de Vries. In the Light of Vermeer: Five Centuries of Painting. Exh. cat., Mauritshuis. The Hague, 1966, unpaginated, no. VI, ill. [Dutch ed., 1966, unpaginated, no. VI, ill.; French ed., 1966, unpaginated, no. VII, ill.].

Piero Bianconi in L'opera completa di Vermeer. Milan, 1967, pp. 91–92, no. 23, ill. p. 92 and colorpl. XXXIV [English ed., 1970, p. 92, no. 23, ill. p. 92 and colorpl. XXXIV].

Horst Gerson in Encyclopedia of World Art. 14, New York, 1967, col. 743.

Hans Koningsberger. The World of Vermeer, 1632–1675. New York, 1967, pp. 124–25, 154, ill. (color).

A. B. de Vries. Vermeer. New York, 1967, pp. 22–23, colorpl. 22.

Denys Sutton. "Pleasure for the Aesthete." Apollo 90 (September 1969), pp. 230–31, ill.

Lawrence Gowing. Vermeer. New York, 1970, pp. 77–78, 134, 138, pl. 41.

Daniel A. Fink. "Vermeer's Use of the Camera Obscura—A Comparative Study." Art Bulletin 53 (March 1971), pp. 493, 498, 502.

Everett Fahy in "Paintings, Drawings." The Wrightsman Collection. 5, [New York], 1973, pp. 310–21, no. 32, ill. (color) and figs. 1 (detail) and 8 (x-ray).

[Jean Mistler]. Vermeer. [Paris], [1973], unpaginated cat., no. 35, ill. (color).

John Walker in The Wrightsman Collection. 5, [New York], 1973, pp. 8–9.

Ernst Günther Grimme. Jan Vermeer van Delft. Cologne, 1974, pp. 61, 109, no. 34, ill. p. 109 and fig. 23.

John Walker. Self-Portrait with Donors: Confessions of an Art Collector. Boston, 1974, pp. 262, 264, ill. p. 263.

Albert Blankert, Rob Ruurs, and Willem L. van de Watering. Johannes Vermeer van Delft, 1632–1675. Utrecht, 1975, pp. 88, 164, no. 30, colorpl. 30 [English ed., "Vermeer of Delft," Oxford, 1978, pp. 59, 170, no. 30, colorpl. 30].

Christopher Wright. Vermeer. London, 1976, pp. 12, 44, 75, 78, 81–83, no. 8, pl. 18.

Katharine Baetjer in The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Notable Acquisitions, 1979–1980. New York, 1980, pp. 41–42, ill. p. 42 and on cover (color).

Howard Hibbard. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1980, p. 348.

Leonard J. Slatkes. Vermeer and His Contemporaries. New York, 1981, p. 104, ill. p. 105 (color).

Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. Jan Vermeer. New York, 1981, p. 132, colorpl. 35.

Martin Pops. Vermeer: Consciousness and the Chamber of Being. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1984, pp. 76, 107 n. 12, fig. 46.

H. R. Hoetink and N. J. Sluijter-Seijffert in The Royal Picture Gallery, Mauritshuis. Amsterdam, 1985, p. 314, under no. 98.

Gilles Aillaud, Albert Blankert, and John Michael Montias. Vermeer. Paris, 1986, pp. 142, 197, 225, no. 30, colorpl. XXVII [English ed., 1988, pp. 148, 193, 224, no. 30, colorpl. 28].

Peter C. Sutton. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Grand Rapids, Mich., 1986, p. 190.

John Michael Montias. Vermeer and His Milieu: A Web of Social History. Princeton, 1989, pp. 196–97, 221, 266, fig. 52.

Calvin Tomkins. Merchants and Masterpieces: The Story of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. rev., enl. ed. New York, 1989, p. 390.

Christopher Wright. Dutch Paintings in the Seventeenth Century: Images of a Golden Age in British Collections. Exh. cat., Birmingham City Museums and Art Gallery. London, 1989, p. 82.

Peter C. Sutton in Ben Broos. "Recent Patterns of Public and Private Collecting of Dutch Art." Great Dutch Paintings from America. Exh. cat., Mauritshuis. The Hague, 1990, p. 105.

John Nash. Vermeer. London, 1991, p. 19.

Alice I. Davies. Jan van Kessel (1641-1680). Doornspijk, The Netherlands, 1992, p. 22.

Daniel Arasse. L'Ambition de Vermeer. Paris, 1993, pp. 29, 160, 182 n. 27, p. 194 n. 43, fig. 41 [English ed., "Vermeer, Faith in Painting," Princeton, 1994, pp. 17, 73, 107 n. 27, p. 121 n. 43, fig. 41].

Edward Snow. A Study of Vermeer. rev., enl. ed., Berkeley, 1994, p. 19, colorpl. 8.

Jørgen Wadum. Vermeer Illuminated. The Hague, [1994?], pp. 7, 44 n. 6, fig. 6 (color).

Jørgen Wadum in Johannes Vermeer. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1995, pp. 75, 79 n. 28, fig. 13 (color).

Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. Vermeer & the Art of Painting. New Haven, 1995, p. 123, fig. A25.

Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. in Johannes Vermeer. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1995, p. 27.

Erik Larsen. Jan Vermeer: Catalogo completo. Florence, 1996, pp. 33, 102, 104, no. 16, ill. p. 69 (color).

Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. Vermeer: The Complete Works. New York, 1997, p. 56, colorpl. 26.

Ben Broos. "Vermeer: Malice and Misconception." Vermeer Studies. Washington, 1998, pp. 22–23.

Nicola Costaras. "A Study of the Materials and Tecniques of Johannes Vermeer." Vermeer Studies. Washington, 1998, pp. 150, 165, 167.

Karin M. Groen et al. "Scientific Examination of Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring'." Vermeer Studies. Washington, 1998, p. 169.

Frances Suzman Jowell. "Vermeer and Thoré-Bürger: Recoveries of Reputation." Vermeer Studies. Washington, 1998, pp. 47, 55 n. 54, fig. 20.

Jørgen Wadum. "Contours of Vermeer." Vermeer Studies. Washington, 1998, pp. 205, 213.

Walter Liedtke. A View of Delft: Vermeer and his Contemporaries. Zwolle, The Netherlands, 2000, pp. 239, 241–45, 256, 292 n. 156, fig. 301.

Anthony Bailey. Vermeer: A View of Delft. New York, 2001, pp. 116, 142, ill. p. 143.

Wayne E. Franits. The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer. Cambridge, 2001, pl. 23.

Walter Liedtke et al. Vermeer and the Delft School. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2001, pp. 166, 284, 388–89, 391–93, no. 75, ill. (color).

Philip Steadman. Vermeer's Camera. Oxford, 2001, p. 159.

Everett Fahy in The Wrightsman Pictures. New York, 2005, pp. 131–35, no. 37, ill. (color) and fig. 1 (detail).

Epco Runia and Peter van der Ploeg. Vermeer in the Mauritshuis. Zwolle, The Netherlands, 2005, ill. pp. 25, 62, and fig. 8 (color; overall and detail).

Walter Liedtke. Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. ix–x; vol. 2, pp. 888–93, no. 205, colorpl. 205.

Esmée Quodbach. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 65 (Summer 2007), pp. 61–62, 68, 70–71, figs. 71 (color), 82 (color, MMA Vermeer gallery photograph).

Walter Liedtke. Vermeer: The Complete Paintings. Antwerp, 2008, pp. 45, 47, 114, 123–24, 131–32, 134–36, 141–42, 146, 193, 196, no. 23, ill. (color).

Peter C. Sutton. Vermeer and the Delft Style. Exh. cat., Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. [Tokyo], 2008, p. 73, fig. 24 (color).

Keith Christiansen in Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977–2008. New York, 2009, p. 36.

Everett Fahy in Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977–2008. New York, 2009, p. 32.

Walter Liedtke in Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977–2008. New York, 2009, p. 41, fig. 52 (color).

Walter Liedtke. "The Milkmaid" by Johannes Vermeer. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2009, pp. 21, 33–34, no. 9, colorpl. 9.