Girl with a Red Hat is a small painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, executed 1665-1666, in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. It is one of a number of Vermeer's tronies -- depictions of models fancifully dressed that were not (as far as is known) intended to be portraits of specific, identifiable subjects.
The painting may have been among those owned by Vermeer's patron, Pieter Claesz van Ruijven (1624-1674), and possibly...
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Girl with a Red Hat is a small painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, executed 1665-1666, in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. It is one of a number of Vermeer's tronies -- depictions of models fancifully dressed that were not (as far as is known) intended to be portraits of specific, identifiable subjects.
The painting may have been among those owned by Vermeer's patron, Pieter Claesz van Ruijven (1624-1674), and possibly, through inheritance it may have been passed on to his wife, Maria de Knuijt (died 1681); her daughter, Magdalena van Ruijven (1655-1682); and Magdalena's husband, Jacob Abrahamsz Dissius (1653-1695). It is thought to have been sold in Amsterdam on May 16, 1696 (probably no. 39 or 40). It was bought at a sale at the Hôtel de Bouillon, in Paris on December 10, 1822 (no. 28.) by Baron Louis Marie Baptiste Atthalin (1784-1856), then owned by inheritance to his nephew and adopted son, Laurent Atthalin; by inheritance to Baron Gaston Laurent...
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