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New light on the nineteenth-century history of Vermeer’s ‘A maid asleep’
02/2023 | 1439 | 165
Pages: 165-169
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Author:
WATSON, Andrew M. (WATSON, Andrew M.)
Subjects
artists:
Vermeer, Johannes
collectors and dealers:
Wilson, John Waterloo (1815–1883) / Durand-Dassier, Victor Eugène (1834–1913) / Gauchez, Léon (1825–1907)
museums and institutions:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States
subjects:
Dutch painting / Provenance / Collecting / Collections, Private / Collectors
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. John Waterloo Wilson. c.1870s. Blackand- white photograph on porcelain, 18.5 by 14.5 cm. (Private collection).
Attributed works:
2. Léon Gauchez, by William Quiller Orchardson. 1895. Oil on canvas, 114 by 100 cm. (Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels; photograph Photo d’art Speltdoorn & Fils, Brussels).
Attributed works:
3. A maid asleep, by Johannes Vermeer. c.1656–67. Oil on canvas, 87.6 by 76.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
4. Petrus Scriverius, by Frans Hals. 1626. Oil on panel, 22.2 by 16.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
5. Anna van der Aar, by Frans Hals. 1626. Oil on panel, 22.2 by 16.5 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
6. Sleeping woman, by Esaias Boursse. 1660s. Oil on wood, 50.8 by 40.6 cm. (Private collection; photograph BPK; Jörg P. Anders).
Attributed works:
7. A maid asleep, by Charles-Jean-Louis Courtry after Vermeer. 1881. Etching, 20 by 17.2 cm. (From ‘Les ventes d’art et de curiosité’, L’Art 24, part 1, 1881).