Saint Praxedis

Date 1655 Materials and Techniques Oil on canvas Size（cm） 101.6 x 82.6 Inscriptions Signed and dated lower left: Meer 1655 Credit Line Deposit from Kufu Company Inc. Category Paintings Collection Number DEP.2014-0001 Erna and Jacob Reder, New York, 1943; With Spencer Samuels & Co., New York, 1969; The Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, by whom acquired from the above in 1987; Sold at Christie's London, 8 July 2014, lot 39; Deposited from Kufu Company Inc. to the NMWA, 2014. Kitson, M. Current and forthcoming exhibitions: Florentine Baroque Art in New York. The Burlington Magazine. vol. 111, June 1969, p. 410, as by Vermeer. Aillaud, G.; Blankert, Albert; Montias, John Michael. Vermeer. Paris, Hazan, 1986 (reprinted Amsterdam, 1992), p. 163, note no. 5. Montias, John Michael. Vermeer and His Milieu: A Web of Social History. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1989, pp. 140-143, 146, fig. 17. Jan Vermeer van Delft: St. Praxedis (exh. cat.). The Wawel Royal Castle, Cracow, May-September 1991. 1991, as by Vermeer. Blankert Albert; Montias, John Michael; Aillaud, Gilles; Ruurs, Rob; Watering, Willem L van de. Vermeer. Amsterdam, Meulenhoff, 1992, p. 163, no. 5. Liedtke, Walter. "Vermeer teaching himself". Rembrandt Och Hans Tid, Rembrandt and His Age (exh. cat.). The Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 2 October 1992-6 January 1993. [1992], pp. 96, 104-105, nos. 37-38, illustrated p. 96, fig. 3, as possibly by Vermeer. Broos, B. Intimacies and Intrigues. History Painting in the Mauritshuis, The Hague/ Ghent, 1993, p. 314, no. 41, as possibly the 'missing link' between Christ in the House of Mary and Martha and Diana and her Companions. Weber, Gregor J. M. Antoine Dézallier d'Argenville unf fünf Künstler namens Jan van der Meer. Oud Holland. vol. 107, no.3, 1993, p. 301, fig. 7, as Jan van der Meer of Utrecht. Brown, Christopher. Exhibition review: Washington ant the Hague, Vermeer. The Burlington Magazine. vol. 138, no. 1117, April 1996, p. 281- 282, fig. 75, as attributed to Vermeer, with reservations. Franits, Wayne. "Vermeer, Johannes". The Dictionary of Art. Turner, Jane, ed. vol, 32, New York, Grove, 1996, p. 262, 'the controversial Saint Praxedis also testifes to Vermeer's exposure to Italian art'. Wadum, Jørgen. "Contours of Vermeer". Vermeer Studies: Studies in the History of Art, 55, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Symposium Papers 33. Gaskell, Ivan; Jonker, Michiel, eds. New Haven/ London, 1998 Bok, Marten Jan. "Not to be confused with the sphinx of Delft: the Utrecht Painter Johannes van der Meer (Schipluiden 1630-1695/ 1697 Vreeswijk?)". Vermeer Studies: Studies in the History of Art, 55, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Symposium Papers 33. Gaskell, Ivan; Jonker, Michiel, eds. New Haven/ London, 1998, pp. 67-68, 75, 79, as probably Italian, not by van der Meer or Vermeer. Broos, Ben. "Vermeer: malice and misconception". Vermeer Studies: Studies in the History of Art, 55, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Symposium Papers 33. Gaskell, Ivan; Jonker, Michiel, eds. New Haven/ London, 1998, p. 30, as 'the latest wrongly attributed Vermeer'. The Cambridge Companion to Vermeer. Frantis, Wayne E., ed. Cambridge/ New York, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 'the controversial Saint Praxedis'. W. Liedtke, Vermeer and the Deflt School (exh. cat.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 8 March-27 May 2001. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001, pp. 581-582, no. 87, as probably Florentine. Buvelot, Quentin. Exhibition: Vermeer and Dutch painting. The Burlington Magazine. vol. 154, no. 1317, December 2012, p. 873.