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image of A Lady Writing
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
From the Tour: Johannes Vermeer and Dutch Scenes of Daily Life in the 1600s
Object 8 of 8

1819Murray, John. Tour in Holland in the Year MDCCCXIX. London, 1819-1823: 29.
1866Thoré, Théophile E. J. (William Bürger). "Van der Meer de Delft." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 21 (October-December 1866): 297-330, 458-470, 542-575, no. 40.
1888Havard, Henry. Van der Meer de Delft. Paris, 1888: 38, no. 43.
1907Hofstede de Groot, Cornelis. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century.... 8 vols., translated from the German edition. London, 1907-1917: 1(1907):598, no. 36.
1908"Recent Loans." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 3 (1908): 76.
1909The Hudson-Fulton Celebration. Exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1909: no. 136.
1909Cortissoz, Royal. "Old Dutch Masters." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 4, no. 10 (1909): 166.
1909Cox, Kenyon. "Art in America, Dutch Paitnings in the Hudson-Fulton Exhibition." The Burlington Magazine 16 (December 1909): 178-184; (January 1910): 245-246; (February 1910): 302-306, repro.
1909Stephenson, B. P. "Great Dutch Artists." Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 4, no. 10 (1909): 168, 172, repro.
1910"Kleine Nachrichten." Der Cicerone 2 (1910): 109-110.
1910Breck, Joseph. "Hollandsche kunst op de Hudson-Fulton tentoonstelling t New York." Onze Kunst 17 (February 1910): 5-12, 41-47.
1910Friedländer, Max J. "Die Ausstellung holländischer Bilder im Metropolitan Museum zu New York 1909." Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 33 (1910): 95-99.
1911Plietzsch, Eduard. Vermeer van Delft. Leipzig, 1911: 118, no. 31.
1913Hale, Philip L. Jan Vermeer of Delft. Boston, 1913: 250-252, 373, repro.
1924Hausenstein, Wilhelm. Vermeer van Delft. Das Bild Atlanten zur Kunst, 10. Munich, 1924: 27, fig. 22.
1926Chantavoine, J. Vermeer de Delft. Paris, 1926: 47, 59, 76, repro.
1935Vermeer. oorsprong en invloed. Fabritius, de Hooch, de Witte. Exh. cat. Museum Boymans-van Beuningen. Rotterdam, 1935: no. 86a.
1935De Hévésy, André d. Review of 1935 exhibition "Vermeer. Oorsprong en invloed. Fabritius, De Hooch, De Witte." Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Le Bulletin de l'art, ancien et moderne 68 (1935): 363-366, repro.
1935Overbeek, J. M. C. van. "Jan Vermeer en zijn Delftsche omgeving. Naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling in het nieuwe Boymansmuseum." Elsevier's Geïllustreerd Maandschrift 45 (1935): 231-238, repro. liii.
1936Martin, Wilhelm. De Hollandsche schilderkunst in de zeventiende eeuw. Rembrandt en zijn tijd. 2 vols. Amsterdam, 1936: 1:193 (also 1942 ed.).
1937Bremmer, Henricus Petrus. "Vermeer." Beeldende Kunst 23 (March 1937): no. 87.
1937Hale, Philip L. Vermeer. Boston and New York, 1937: 101, 226, no. 35.
1939McCall, George Henry. Masterpieces of Art: European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, ed. Exh. cat. New York World's Fair, New York, 1939: no. 399.
1939Plietzsch, Eduard. Vermeer van Delft. Munich, 1939: 30, fig. 31 (also 1948 English ed.).
1939Trivas, Numa S. "Oude kunst op de New Yorksche wereldtentoonstelling." Elsevier's Geïlustreerd Maandschrift 49 (1939): 136-141.
1939Vries, Ary Bob de. Jan Vermeer van Delft. Amsterdam, 1939: 46-47, 88 no. 26, repro. fig. 50 (also English, rev. ed., London, New York, Toronto and Sydney, 1948: 39-40, 88-89, pl. 21).
1940Comstock, Helen. "The Connoisseur in America. Loan Exhibition for War Relief." The Connoisseur 106 (October 1940): 112-114, repro.
1940Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Allied Art for Allied Aid. Important French, British, Dutch and Flemish Works in the Red Cross Benefit." Art News 39 (15 June 1940): 8-9, 17, repro.
1940Goldscheider, Ludwig. The Paintings of Jan Vermeer. Oxford and New York, 1940: 13, fig. 35.
1941Loan Exhibition in Honour of Royal Cortissoz and His 50 Years of Criticism in the New York Herald Tribune. Exh. cat. M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1941: no. 17.
1942Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Proving the Dutch Masters Great." Art News 41 (15-31 October 1942): 11, 35, repro.
1944Rigby, Douglas, and Elizabeth Rigby. Lock, Stock and Barrel: The Story of Collecting. Philadelphia, New York, and London, 1944: 13.
1946Blum, André. Vermeer et Thoré-Burger. Geneva, 1946: 179, no. 40.
1949Allen, Frederick Lewis. The Great Pierpont Morgan. New York, 1949: 109.
1949Hultén, Karl Gunnar. "Zu Vermeers Atelierbild." Konsthistorisk Tidskrfit 18 (1949): 90-98, no. 35.
1949Thienen, Frithjof van. Jan Vermeer of Delft. New York, 1949: 23, no. 24, repro.
1950Swillens, P. T. A. Johannes Vermeer: Painter of Delft, 1632-1675. Utrecht, 1950: 53, 67, 78, 82, 87, 89, 108, 155, pl. 8.
1951Boström, Keil. "Jan Vermeer van Delft en Cornelis van der Meulen." Oud-Holland 66 (1951): 117-122.
1952Gowing, Lawrence. Vermeer. London, 1952: 134, no. xviii, fig. 42 (also 2nd ed., New York, 1970).
1952Malraux, André, ed. Vermeer de Delft. Paris, 1952: 65, no. xiii, repro.
1954Bloch, Vitale. Tutta la Pittura di Vermeer di Delft. Milan, 1954: 35, no. 53, repro. (also English ed., trans. Michael Kitson, All the Paintings of Jan Vermeer, New York, 1963).
1958Goldscheider, Ludwig. Jan Vermeer: The Paintings. London, 1958: 129-130, no. 20, fig. 50 (also 1967 ed.).
1961Mirimonde, Albert P. de. "Les Sujets musicaux chez Vermeer de Delft." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 57 (January 1961): 29-52.
1961Reitlinger, Gerald. The Economics of Taste: The Rise and Fall of Picture Prices, 1760-1960. 3 vols. New York, 1982: 1:483 (also 1961-1970 ed., London).
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 135.
1966Descargues, Pierre. Vermeer. Trans. by James Emmons. Geneva, 1966: 65, 130 and 134, repros.
1967Bianconi, Piero. The Complete Paintings of Vermeer. New York, 1967: 93, no. 28, repro.
1967Koningsberger, Hans. The World of Vermeer 1632-1675. New York, 1967: 154-155, repro.
1968The Frick Collection: An Illustrated Catalogue: Paintings, American, British, Dutch, Flemish and German. New York, 1968: 1:298.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 122, repro.
1969Sutton, Peter C. "Pleasure for the Aesthete." Apollo 90 (September 1969): 230-239.
1973Fahy, Everett, and Francis John Bagott Watson. The Wrightsman Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art): Paitnings, Drawings, Sculpture. New Yoerk, 1973: 5:316, fig. 6.
1974Canfield, Cass. The Incredible Pierpont Morgan: Financier and Art Collector. New York, 1974: 107, 160 repro.
1974Grimme, Ernst Günther. Jan Vermeer van Delft. Cologne, 1974: 77, no. 27, fig. 18.
1975Blankert, Albert, contr. by Rob Ruurs and Willem van de Watering. Johannes Vermeer van Delft, 1632-1675. Utrecht and Antwerp, 1975: 11, 36, 82-84, 109, 153-154, no. 20, pl. 20 (English ed.,Oxford,1978: 10, 25, 54, 56, 73, 164, no. 20, figs. 20-20a).
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 362, repro.
1976Wright, Christopher. Vermeer. London, 1976: 12. 42, 44, no. 16, repro.
1977Menzel, Gerhard W. Vermeer. Leipzig, 1977: 68, fig. 65.
19771977 Annual Report. National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1977: 47, repro.
1977Straaten, Evert van. Johannes Vermeer, 1632-1675. Een Delfts schilder en de cultuur van zijn tijd. The Hague, 1977: 48-49, fig. 60.
1978King, Marian. Adventures in Art: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1978: 53, pl. 30.
1981Slatkes, Leonard J. Vermeer and His Contemporaries. New York, 1981: 70-71, repro.
1981Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Jan Vermeer. New York, 1981: 124-127, no. 31, repros. 31-32 (2nd rev. ed., 1988).
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 300, no. 399, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 421, repro.
1986Aillaud, Gilles, Albert Blankert, and John Michael Montias. Vermeer. Paris, 1986: 11, 46, 52, 85, 132, 189-190, no. 20, pl. 22 (also 1988 English ed., New York).
1989Montias, John Michael. Vermeer and His Milieu: A Web of Social History. Princeton, 1989: 191-192, 196, 256, 259 note 21, 266, repro. 44.
1990Broos, Ben P. J., et al. Great Dutch Paintings from America. Exh. cat. Mauritshuis, The Hague; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. The Hague and Zwolle, 1990: no. 67.
1991Nash, John. Vermeer. London, 1991: color repro. 34, 36-37.
1991Buijsen, Edwin. "Een terugblik op De kunst van het verzamelen." De kunst van het verzamelen [Mauritshuis, The Hague] (October 1991): 7-12, repro.
1991Liedtke, Walter A. "America and Dutch Art." De kunst van het verzamelen [Mauritshuis, The Hague] (October 1991): 21-29, repro.
1993Leselust: niederländische Malerei von Rembrandt bis Vermeer. Sabine Schulze, ed. Exh. cat. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 1993: no. 85.
1995Johannes Vermeer. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1995-1996: no. 13.
1995Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Vermeer and the Art of Painting. New Haven, 1995: 145, 179, repro.
1995Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 377-382, color repro. 379.
1997Gowing, Lawrence. Vermeer. London, 1997: no. 42, repro.
1997Scholz, Georg. Lyrische Bilder: Gedichte nach Gemälden von Jan Vermeer. Munich, 1997: 36, repro.
1997Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Vermeer: The Complete Works. New York, 1997: 44-45, no. 20, repro.

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