Oil on canvas, 55 x 45 cm.
Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
The artworks below constitute a succinct survey of the evolution of the narratives and compositional schemes that can be in some manner be associated with Vermeer's Woman with a Pearl Necklace, before and after it was presumably created.
The individual artworks are arranged in chronological order. However, this order must be considered no more than approximate given that often times the dates of Vermeer's paintings and the related artworks listed herein bear no dates and thus are fruit of art historical speculation. Furthermore, although every effort was made to provide the most accurate title, author, date, technique, dimensions and whereabouts of each artwork, these should be researched thoroughly before drawing definitive conclusions, given that some of this information was derived from internet websites whose reliability cannot be guaranteed.
When an artwork's date was not found the painter's birth and dates are given between parentheses. When it was not possible to determine the current location of the art work, it is given as either "Whereabouts unknown" or "Private collection (?)"
In order to improve the quality of this survey readers are strongly encouraged to signal both new artworks and inaccuracies.
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(?) After Jan van Eyck, Netherlandish (c. 1390–1441)
Previously attributed to Unidentified Artist
Early 16th century
Oil on oak panel, 27.2 x 16.3 cm.
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
Giovanni Bellini
1515
Oil on Wood, 62.9 x 78.3 cm.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Titian
c. 1555
Oil on canvas, 124.5 x 105.5 cm.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Titian and Workshop
c. 1565–1570
Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 209.6 cm.
Metroploitan Museum of Art, New York
Titian and Workshop
c. 1565–1570
Oil on canvas, 165.1 x 209.6 cm.
Metroploitan Museum of Art, New York
Jusepe de Ribera (1591–1652)
-
Oil on canvas, 113 x 89 cm.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Gillis van Breen, after Pieter Cornelisz. van Rijck
c. 1585–1615
Engraving, 272 x 200 cm.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Jacob de Gheyn
c. 1595–1596
Engraving, 27.8 x 18.5 cm.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Jan Saenredam after Hendrick Goltzius
c. 1595–1600
Engraving, 23.9 x 17.9 cm.
Rijksmuseumn, Amsterdam
Hans von Aachen
c. 1596
Oil on canvas, 36.8 x 30.5 cm.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Adriaen Pietersz van de Venne
c. 1630
Oil on canvas, 36 x 32 cm.
Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Paulus Moreelse
1632
Oil on canvas, 87.6 x 73.1 cm.
Private collection (?)
Pieter Codde
c. 1635
Oil on panel, 37 x 30.5 cm.
Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Warsaw
Jean de Weert after David Rijckaert
c. 1645–1660
Print, 13.4 x 1.71 cm.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Jacob Duck (active 1615–1667)
-
Oil on canvas, 50.6 x 45.7 cm.
Private collection (?)
Gerrit ter Borch
c. 1650–1651
Oil on panel, 47.5 x 34.5 cm.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Carl Fabritius
1654
Oil on panel, 33 x 23 cm.
Mauritshuis, The Hague
Jacobus Vrel
c. 1654–1662
Oil on oak panel, 55.9 x 40.6 cm.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Rembrandt
1657
Oil on panel, 39.5 x 32.5 cm.
Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Gerrit ter Borch
c. 1657–1658
Oil on oak panel, 36.6 x 28 cm.
Wallace Collection, London
Gabriel Metsu
Netherlands
c. 1657–1662
Oil on oak panel, 19.2 x 16.6 cm.
Wallace Collection, London
Pieter Janssens Elinga (active 1638–1682)
-
Oil on canvas, 66 x 63 cm.
Museum Bredius, The Hague
Frans van Mieris
1658
Oil on panel, 23 x 18.3 cm.
Musée Fabre, Montpellier
Frans van Mieris
c. 1659–1660
Oil on canvas, 51.5 x 39.5 cm.
Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Gabriel Metsu
c. 1658–1660
Oil on panel, 50 x 43 cm.
Private collection
Bartholomeus van der Helst ?
-
Oil on canvas
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
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Jacob Duck
c. 1660–1665
Oil on cnavas, 38.7 x 31.5 cm.
Private collection (?)
Gerrit ter Borch
1660
Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 59.7 cm.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Gabriel Metsu
c. 1660
Oil on panel, 66.6 x 59.4 cm.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Pier Francesco Mola
c. 1660
Oil on canvas, 120 x 98.6 cm.
Museo Civico di Belle Arti, Lugano
Studio of Caspar Netscher
c. 1665
Oil on oak panel, 44.5 x 35.5 cm.
English Heritage, The Wellington Collection, Apsley House
Johannes Vermeer
c. 1662–1665
Oil on canvas, 55 x 45 cm.
Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Frans van Mieris (?)
c. 1662–1664
Oil on panel, 21 x 17 cm.
Private collection, Mertoun
Frans van Mieris
c. 1662–1665
Oil on panel, 30 x 23 cm.
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
Gabriel Metsu
c. 1664–1666
Oil on panel, 23.5 20 cm.
Private collection, Willem Baron van Dedem, London
Frans van Mieris
1667
Oil on panel, 28 x 22 cm.
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen
Alte Meister (Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister), Dresden
Caspar Netscher
1667
Oil on panel, 26 x 21.5 cm.
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meiste, Kassel (Hessen)
Gerrit Dou
1667
Oil on panel, 75.5 x 58 cm.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Gabriel Metsu
1667
Oil on panel, 57.15 x 43.18 cm.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Caspar Netscher
1668
Oil on panel, 35.8 x 28 cm.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Caspar Netscher
1669
Oil on oak panel, 47.5 x 36.9 cm.
Private collection (?)
Frans van Mieris
c. 1670
Oil on panel, 42.9 x 31.6 cm.
Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Jan van Mieris
c. 1685
Oil on panel, 22.5 x 16.5 cm.
Private collection,Otto Naumann, New York
Philip van Dijk
c. 1720–1730
Oil on panel, 29.5 x 23.5 cm.
Galerij Prins Willem V, The Hague
Manner of Frans van Mieris the Elder
19th century
Oil on panel, 38.5 x 30.5 cm.
Private collection (?)
Dirk Jurriaan Sluyter, after Cornelis Bisschop
1857
Etching, 17.3 x 11.2 cm.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam





























































