The Smiling Girl, c. 1925

Provenance

Private collection, Lower Rhine, in 1926; sold 1926 to Walter Kurt Rohde, Berlin; sold May 1926 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[1] sold December 1926 to Andrew W. Mellon [1835-1937], Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded 30 March 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1929

Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1929, no. 317, as Head of a Young Girl by Johannes Vermeer.

2015

The Art of Sleuthing, Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina, 2015-2017, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1926

"A Portrait by Vermeer." Apollo (December 1926): 231, color repro.

1926

Bode, Wilhelm von. "Vermeer." In Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 47 (1926): 251, repro.

1926

Dayot, Armand. "Un Portrait Inconnu par Vermeer de Delft." L'Art et les Artistes (October 1926): 33, repro.

1928

"America Lends Dutch Paintings to London Show." Art News (29 December 1928): 1, repro. 14.

1928

Valentiner, Wilhelm R. "A Newly Discovered Vermeer." Art in America (April 1928): 101-107, repro.

1929

Gibson, William. "The Dutch Exhibition at Burlington House." Apollo 9 (January 1929): 81, color repro. 116.

1929

Hofstede de Groot, C. Jan Vermeer of Delft. Amsterdam, 1929: 5, no. 50, repro.

1929

International Studio (January 1929): 65.

1932

Bredius, Abraham. "An Unpublished Vermeer." The Burlington Magazine 61 (October 1932): 145.

1935

Tietze, Hans. Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika. Vienna, 1935: 190, repro. (English ed., Masterpieces of European Painting in America. New York, 1939: 190, repro.).

1937

Hale, Philip Leslie. Vermeer. Edited by Frederick W. Coburn and Ralph T. Hale. Boston, 1937: 134-135, repro.

1937

"The Mellon Collection. A National Art Gallery for America." The Connoisseur (March 1937): 140-141, repro.

1940

Goldscheider, Ludwig. The Paintings of Jan Vermeer. New York, 1940: 5.

1941

Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 216, repro., as by Jan Vermeer.

1941

Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 209, no. 55, as by Jan Vermeer.

1942

Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 240, repro. 34, as by Jan Vermeer.

1943

Apollo 38 (July 1943): cover repro.

1945

Vries, Ary Bob de. Jan Vermeer van Delft. Basel, 1945: 113, no. 19.

1948

Kurz, Otto. Fakes: A Handbook for Collectors and Students. London, 1948: 58.

1948

Vries, Ary Bob de. Jan Vermeer van Delft. Translated by Robert Allen. Revised ed. London and New York, 1948: 97, pl. 35.

1949

Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 34, repro., as by Jan Vermeer.

1950

Swillens, P. T. A. Johannes Vermeer: Painter of Delft, 1632–1675. Translated by C.M. Breuning-Williamson. Utrecht, 1950: 65-66, no. I.

1958

Goldscheider, Ludwig. Jan Vermeer: The Paintings. London, 1958: 144, no. 8.

1965

National Gallery of Art. Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. Washington, 1965: 135, as by Vermeer.

1968

Bianconi, Piero. Tout l'oeuvre peint de Vermeer. Paris, 1968: no. 16.

1968

European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 122, repro., as by Vermeer.

1970

Richard, Paul. "The Mystery of the Two Vermeers." The Washington Post (12 February 1970): B1, B12.

1973

Fahy, Everett, and Francis John Bagott Watson. The Wrightsman Collection. Vol. 5: Paintings, drawings, sculpture. New York, 1973: 319.

1975

European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 364, repro., as Follower of Vermeer.

1995

Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. "The Story of Two Vermeer Forgeries." In Shop Talk: Studies in Honor of Seymour Slive, Presented on His Seventy-fifth Birthday. Cambridge, Mass., 1995: 271-275, 426 fig. 2, as by Imitator of Johannes Vermeer (probably Theodorus van Wijngaarden).

2001

Franits, Wayne E., ed. The Cambridge companion to Vermeer. Cambridge, England, and New York, 2001: 173-176, fig. 62, as by Theodorus van Wijngaarden.

2008

Dolnick, Edward. The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century. New York, 2008: 107, 108, 109-111, 118, 119, 140n, 306n, color plate, as by Theo van Wijngaarden.

2008

Fenton, Roger. "Victims of Vermeermania." The New York Review of Books 55, no. 17 (November 6, 2008): 58.

2008

Lopez, Jonathan. The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren. New York, 2008: 54, 59, 61, 64-71, 86, 94-96, 103, 112-113, 115, 228-240, repro., as by Han van Meegeren.

2008

Lopez, Jonathan. "Van Meegeren's Early Vermeers." Apollo (July-August 2008): 22-29, fig. 9, as by Han van Meegeren.

2013

Harris, Neil. Capital Culture: J. Carter Brown, the National Gallery of Art, and the Reinvention of the Museum Experience. Chicago and London, 2013: 221.

2018

Meersschaert, Erik. Adrian Brouwer--zo zijn leven, zo zijn werk. Oudenaarde, 2018: 288, 290 color repro.

2022

Gifford, E. Melanie, Kathryn A. Dooley, and John K. Delaney. "Methodology & Resources: New Findings from the National Gallery of Art." Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art. 14, no. 2 (Summer 2022): fig. 24.

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