The Dissus Sale of 1696
No. 37 "A lady playing the clavicen, by ditto" 42-0
Woman Standing at the
Virginals
Gabriel Metsu
1662-1665
Woman Seated at the Virginals
Johannes Vermeer
VERMEER'S PAINTING
- COMPLETE VERMEER CATALOGUE
- Vermeer's paintings in scale
- museum locations of Vermeer's paintings
- geographical distribution of Vermeer's work
- Vermeer's signatures
- Vermeer paintings in their frames
- the Baron Rolin Woman at a Virginal
- Vermeer's clients and patrons
- missing Vermeer's
- Saint Praxedis: missing the mark
- the Dissius auction
- eyewitness accounts of Vermeer's paintings
- Vermeer's lost self-portrait
- erroneous attributions and fakes
- the Procuress: evidence for a Vermeer self-portrait
VERMEER'S PAINTING TECHNIQUE
- Vermeer's palette
- details of Vermeer's painting technique
- Vermeer and the camera obscura
- Virtual reconstruction of woman with a water pitcher
E.V. INTERVIEWS
TIMELINES
MUSIC IN VERMEER'S TIME
VERMEER'S LIFE
- Vermeer's life
- chronology of Vermeer's life
- Johannes and Catharina
- Vermeer the man
- Vermeer's children
TIMELINES
DELFT & DUTCH PAINTING
- the school of delft
- the saint luke's guild of delft
- dutch master gallery
- the golden age of dutch painting
- economics in dutch 17th c. painting
- rembrandt (an E.V.sister site)
DELFT
VERMEER EVENTS
DUTCH PRONUNCIATION (MP3)
PRINTS AND POSTERS
BOOKSHOPS
- Vermeer related books
- dutch art
- old master painting technique
- videos, novels & poetry inspired by Vermeer
- Vermeer's painting technique
MUSEUMS
RESEARCH
- in-depth bibliography
- Johannes Vermeer bookshop
- glossary of art terms
- dating of Vermeer's paintings
- map of current painting locations
- museum websites with Vermeer's paintings
- online dutch art resources
EXTERNAL SOURCES
MISC.
- proust and Vermeer:"petit pan de mur jaune."
- the han van meegeren case
- brush with fate: a behind the scenes view girl in hyacinth blue
- lace and lacemaking in vermeer's time
- Constantijn Huygens
VERMEER VIDEOS
copyright@ 2001-2008 Jonathan Janson
The description of the painting fits both A Lady Seated at the Virginals and A Lady Standing at the Virginals , both in the National Gallery of London. Which ever one the painting was, the other was in the collection of the immensely rich Antwerp banker Diego Duarte.