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image of The Needlewoman
Diego Velázquez (artist)
Spanish, 1599 - 1660
The Needlewoman, c. 1640/1650
oil on canvas
Overall: 74 x 60 cm (29 1/8 x 23 5/8 in.) framed: 102.2 x 88.3 x 7.6 cm (40 1/4 x 34 3/4 x 3 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
1937.1.81
On View
From the Tour: Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century
Object 5 of 7
1935Mayer, August L. A Portrait by Velázquez. Francisca Velázquez, Daughter of the Master (The Woman Sewing). New York, [1935].
1936Mayer, August L. Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Pictures and Drawings. London, 1936: 132, no. 558, pl. 189.
1941Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 207.
1942Sánchez Cantón, Francisco J. "Como vivía Velázquez: inventario descubierto por D. F. Rodríquez Marín." Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueologia 15 (1942): 79.
1942Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 240, repro. 216.
1943Lafuente Ferrari, Enrique. Paintings and Drawings of Velázquez. Complete Edition. London and New York, 1943: 25, no. 77, pl. 93.
1944Sánchez Cantón, Francisco J. Review of Veázquez by E. Lafuente Ferrari. In Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueologia 17 (1944): 136.
1945Cook 1945, 80-82.
1945Sánchez Cantón, Francisco J. "New Facts About Velázquez." The Burlington Magazine 87 (1945): 293.
1945Soria, Martin S. Review of The Paintings and Drawings of Velázquez by Enrique Lafuente Ferrari. In The Art Bulletin 27 (September, 1945): 214.
1948López-Rey, José. Review of Archivo Español de Arte. (1940-1946). In Gazette des Beaux-Arts 33 (1948): 60-61.
1949Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 46, repro.
1952Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 82, color repro.
1955Pantorba, Bernardino de [José López Jimemez]. La vida y la obra de Velázquez: estudio biografico y crítico. Madrid, 1955: 232, no. 164.
1956Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 32, repro.
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 114
1959Kubler, George, and Martin S. Soria. Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal and Their American Dominions 1500-1800. Baltimore, 1959: 264, 386, n. 48.
1960Evans, Grose. Spanish Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Ten in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 26, color repro.
1963López-Rey, José. Velázquez: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Oeuvre. London, 1963: 331-332, pl. 114.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 168, repro.
1964Camón Aznar, José. Velázquez. 2 vols. Madrid, 1964: 435-437, repro. 436.
1964Harris, Enriqueta. Review of Velázquez by José López-Rey. In The Burlington Magazine 106 (1965): 426.
1965Sánchez-Cantón, Francisco J. Review of Velázquez by José López-Rey. In Gazette des Beaux-Arts 65 (1965): 127.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 134
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:204, color repro.
1968López-Rey, José. Velázquez' Work and World. London, 1958: 94-95, pl. 133.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 121, repro.
1974Gudiol y Ricart, José. Velázquez: 1599-1660. Translated by Kenneth Lyons. London, 1974: 318, 339, no. 160, fig. 236.
1975Harris, Enriqueta. "The Cleaning of Velázquez's Lady with a Fan." The Burlington Magazine 117 (1975): 319.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 360, repro.
1979López-Rey, José. Velázquez; the Artist as Maker. Lausanne and Paris, 1979: 92, 96, 99, 390, no. 81, pl. 166.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 63, pl. 45, color repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 242, no. 308, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 419, repro.
1986Brown, Jonathan. Velázquez, Painter and Courtier. New Haven and London, 1986: color fig. 178.
1990Velázquez. Exh. cat. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain, 1990: no. 61, repro. 357.
1990Brown, Jonathan, and Richard G. Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1990: 116-119, color repro. 117.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 85, repro.
1997Mittler, Gene and Rosalind Ragans. Understanding Art, New York, Ohio, California, Illinois, 1997, p. 186, no. 12-3, repro.

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