File:Johannes Vermeer - Woman Holding a Balance - Google Art Project.jpg
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[edit]Johannes Vermeer: Woman Holding a Balance
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Artist |
artist QS:P170,Q41264 Details on Google Art Project |
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Title |
Woman Holding a Balance title QS:P1476,en:"Woman Holding a Balance"
label QS:Len,"Woman Holding a Balance" |
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Object type |
painting object_type QS:P31,Q3305213 |
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Genre |
genre art ![]() |
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Date | c. 1664 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medium |
oil on canvas medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 oil on canvasmedium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259 |
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Dimensions |
height: 397 mm (15.62 in); width: 355 mm (13.97 in) dimensions QS:P2048,397U174789 dimensions QS:P2049,355U174789 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q214867 |
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Accession number |
1942.9.97 |
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Object history |
Possibly Pieter Claesz van Ruijven [1624 1674], Delft; possibly by inheritance to his wife, Maria de Knuijt [d. 1681], Delft; 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. 1);[2] Isaac Rooleeuw, Amsterdam; (sale, Amsterdam, 20 April 1701, no. 6); Paolo van Uchelen [d. 1703], Amsterdam. (sale, B. Tideman, Amsterdam, 18 March 1767, no. 6); Kok. Nicolaas Nieuhoff, Amsterdam; (sale, Ph. van der Schley, Amsterdam, 14 April 1777, no. 116); Van den Bogaard.[3] (sale, Maximilian I Joseph (1756 1825), Munich, 5 December 1826, no. 101, as by Gabriel Metsu). Louis Charles Victor de Riquet de Caraman [1762 1839], Paris; (sale, Lacoste, Paris, 10 May 1830, no. 68). Casimir Péreir; (sale, Christie & Manson, London, 5 May 1848, no. 7); Péreir's son; by inheritance to
[2] For this sale see Montias 1989, 363 364, doc. 439. [3] The systematic catalogue for the NGA Dutch paintings published the following information at this point in the provenance: "PP. [initials of consignor]; (sale, Ph. van der Schley, Amsterdam, 11 May 1801, no. 48); bought for Ph. van der Schley by M[errem]." This had been provided by The Getty Provenance Index, but was in error. The painting in the 1801 sale was one of the same subject by Pieter de Hooch, now in Berlin, per 27 October 1997 letter from Burton Frederickson, Director of the Provenance Index, in NGA curatorial files. [4] M. Knoedler & Co. purchased one quarter share in the painting from Colnaghi in October 1910, per 18 May 1995 letter from Melissa De Medeiros, Knoedler Librarian, in NGA curatorial file. |
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Notes | More info at museum site | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source/Photographer | -wHFDKu7-mhjtQ at Google Cultural Institute maximum zoom level | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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