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NotesTwo other versions of this subject by Bramer are known: one dated 1643 (formerly Benedykt Tyszkiewicz, Warsaw) [see Wladyslaw Tomkiewicz, "Catalogue of Paintings Removed from Poland by the German Occupation Authorities During the Years 1939–1945," Warsaw, 1950, pp. 54–55, no. 122, pl. 116] and one that probably dates from the late 1640s or early 1650s (St. Annen-Museum, Lübeck).

ProvenanceNational Surety Company (until 1911)

Exhibition History

Wooster, Ohio. Josephine Long Wishart Museum of Art. "Exhibition of Paintings of French, Italian, Dutch, Flemish and German Masters, lent by The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 20–December 15, 1944, unnumbered cat.

Palm Beach. Society of the Four Arts. "Portraits, Figures and Landscapes," January 12–February 4, 1951, no. 5.

Minneapolis. University Gallery, University of Minnesota. "Space in Painting," January 28–March 7, 1952, no catalogue?

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.

References

Albert Blankert. Johannes Vermeer van Delft, 1632–1675. Utrecht, 1975, p. 13, fig. 3 [English ed., "Vermeer of Delft," Oxford, 1978, p. 11, fig. 4].

Alfred Bader. The Bible through Dutch Eyes: From Genesis through the Apocrypha. Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Center. Milwaukee, 1976, p. 102, fig. 23, under no. 46.

John Michael Montias. Artists and Artisans in Delft: A Socio-Economic Study of the Seventeenth Century. Princeton, 1982, p. 148, fig. 6.

Albert Blankert in Vermeer. Paris, 1986, p. 71, fig. 48 (color) [English ed., Rizzoli, New York, 1988].

Michiel Plomp. "'Een merkwaardige verzameling Teekeningen' door Leonaert Bramer." Oud Holland 100, no. 2 (1986), p. 110 n. 5, under no. 14.

Peter C. Sutton. A Guide to Dutch Art in America. Grand Rapids, Mich., 1986, p. 180.

Wolfgang C. Maier-Preusker. "Christiaen van Couwenbergh (1604–1667), Œuvre und Wandlungen eines holländischen Caravaggisten." Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 52 (1991), pp. 189, 235 n. 98.

Jane ten Brink Goldsmith et al. Leonaert Bramer, 1596–1674: Ingenious Painter and Draughtsman in Rome and Delft. Exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft. Zwolle, The Netherlands, 1994, p. 172, fig. 48a, under no. 48.

Walter Liedtke et al. Vermeer and the Delft School. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2001, pp. 65–66, fig. 68.

Walter Liedtke. Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, vol. 1, pp. xi, 90–93, no. 21, colorpl. 21, fig. 17 (color detail).

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