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Nr. 342 (November 1925)
DOI Artikel:Lloyd, David: The Vermeers in America
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19986#0123
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LADY WITH A LUTE" Courtesy oj the Metropolitan Museum of Art BY JAN VERMEER
THE VERMEER8 IN AMERI6A
Of the less than forty One third of the existing G. Johnson Collection, Phil-
accepted Vermeers pictures painted by J an Van adelphia, which contains
(paintings by Jan ^ , jy^ft ^ "The Lady with_ Guitar,"
van der Meer of Dent) • ,# • J , one ot two paintings with
twelve or thirteen, about in ■ LS country which Vermeer's widow re-
one-third of the total, are DAVID LLOYD deemed a debt of six hun-
to be found in America to- dred and seventeen florins,
day. If we were sticking pins in a map to indicate set the number of Vermeers in this country in
their distribution, we should have to dot them 1913 at seven. Mr. Lucas in 1921 (in his charming
about in some such fashion as this: Budapest, 1; description of his tour of known Vermeers) noted
Vienna, 1; Dresden, 2; Frankfort, 1; Brunswick, the figure at ten. If we count them up today
1; Berlin, 2; Brussels, 3; Amsterdam, 4; The there are four in the Metropolitan Museum, begin-
Hague, 4; Paris, 2; London, 4 or 5; Windsor ning with "A Woman with a Water Jug" from the
Castle, 1; Skelmorlie Castle, 1; Boston, 1; New Marquand collection, 1888, perhaps the earliest
York, 8; Philadelphia, 3. entry in the American record; there is further the
Dr. Valentiner, in the catalogue of the John "Girl Asleep" in the Altman Bequest, the "Lady
NOVEMBER I925
one twenty-three
suimo
LADY WITH A LUTE" Courtesy oj the Metropolitan Museum of Art BY JAN VERMEER
THE VERMEER8 IN AMERI6A
Of the less than forty One third of the existing G. Johnson Collection, Phil-
accepted Vermeers pictures painted by J an Van adelphia, which contains
(paintings by Jan ^ , jy^ft ^ "The Lady with_ Guitar,"
van der Meer of Dent) • ,# • J , one ot two paintings with
twelve or thirteen, about in ■ LS country which Vermeer's widow re-
one-third of the total, are DAVID LLOYD deemed a debt of six hun-
to be found in America to- dred and seventeen florins,
day. If we were sticking pins in a map to indicate set the number of Vermeers in this country in
their distribution, we should have to dot them 1913 at seven. Mr. Lucas in 1921 (in his charming
about in some such fashion as this: Budapest, 1; description of his tour of known Vermeers) noted
Vienna, 1; Dresden, 2; Frankfort, 1; Brunswick, the figure at ten. If we count them up today
1; Berlin, 2; Brussels, 3; Amsterdam, 4; The there are four in the Metropolitan Museum, begin-
Hague, 4; Paris, 2; London, 4 or 5; Windsor ning with "A Woman with a Water Jug" from the
Castle, 1; Skelmorlie Castle, 1; Boston, 1; New Marquand collection, 1888, perhaps the earliest
York, 8; Philadelphia, 3. entry in the American record; there is further the
Dr. Valentiner, in the catalogue of the John "Girl Asleep" in the Altman Bequest, the "Lady
NOVEMBER I925
one twenty-three