Smiling Girl

Smiling Girl is an oil-on-canvas tronie, a type of character-study portrait, painted around 1925 and long thought to be a work of Johannes Vermeer before later study attributed it instead to Theo van Wijngaarden, a twentieth-century forger associated with Han van Meegeren. Measuring 41 by 31.8 centimeters, it depicts a young woman smiling and was donated to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., by the collector Andrew W. Mellon in 1937. In a 1995 study the art historian Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. concluded the painting was the work of a twentieth-century forger rather than the Old Master to whom it had first been credited. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/