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Johannes Vermeer (artist) Dutch, 1632 - 1675 A Lady Writing, c. 1665 oil on canvas Overall: 45 x 39.9 cm (17 11/16 x 15 11/16 in.) framed: 68.3 x 62.2 x 7 cm (26 7/8 x 24 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.) Gift of Harry Waldron Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer, Jr., in memory of their father, Horace Havemeyer 1962.10.1 |
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Provenance
Possibly Pieter Claesz van Ruijven [1624-1674], Delft; possibly by inheritance to his wife, Maria de Knuijt [d. 1681]; possibly by inheritance to her daughter, Magdalena van Ruijven [1655-1682], Delft; possibly by inheritance to her husband, Jacobus Abrahamsz. Dissius [1653-1695], Delft;[1] (sale, Amsterdam, 16 May 1696, no. 35).[2] J. van Buren, The Hague; (sale, Scheurleer, The Hague, 7 November 1808, no. 22). Dr. Cornelis Jan Luchtmans [1777-1860], Rotterdam; (sale, Muys, Rotterdam, 20 April 1816, no. 90). F. Kamermans, Rotterdam, by 1819; (sale, Lamme, Rotterdam, 3 October 1825, no. 70); Lelie. (sale, Jer. de Vries, Amsterdam, 5 April 1827, no. 26); François-Xavier, Count de Robiano [1837-1887], Brussels; (sale, Barbé, Brussels, 1 May 1837, no. 436); Ludovic, Count de Robiano [1837-1887], Brussels; by inheritance to Robiano's heirs until 1906; (J. & A. LeRoy, Brussels, 1907); J. Pierpont Morgan [1837-1913], New York; by inheritance to his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. [1867-1943], New York; (consigned to M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1935-1939); Sir Harry Oakes [d. 1943], Nassau, Bahamas; by inheritance to Lady Eunice Oakes [d. 1946], Nassau, Bahamas; (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); sold 1946 to Horace Havemeyer [d. 1956], New York; by inheritance to Harry Waldron Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer, Jr., New York; gift 1962 to NGA.
[1] The 1683 inventory of goods accruing to Jacob Dissius after the death of his wife Magdalena van Ruyven lists twenty paintings by Vermeer. For the complete transactions between her husband Jacob Dissius and his father Abraham Dissius following her death, see John Michael Montias, Vermeer and His Milieu: A Web of Social History, Princeton, 1989, 246-257, 359-360, docs. 417, 420.
[2] For this sale see Montias 1989, 363-364, doc. 439.
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