The Dissus Sale of 1696

No. 8; "A drunken sleeping maid at a table, by the same"    62-0
A Maid Asleep by Johannes Vermeer

A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer

The description of this painting seems to fit very well A Maid Asleep in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This painting is Vermeer's earliest (c.1656-1657) known painting in the Dissius collection. Perhaps Van Ruijven felt that Vermeer’s earlier works of historical and religious themes were not of great artistic significance.

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