Girl with a Red Hat is a small painting attributed to the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is considered one of Vermeer's tronies, depictions of fancifully dressed models not intended as portraits of specific, identifiable people. Its attribution to Vermeer was long disputed because it is painted on a recycled wood panel rather than canvas, but a study by the curators of the National Gallery of Art, also supported by Dutch experts, has since established Vermeer's authorship.
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Year CreatedCirca; Wikipedia's Provenance section calls the date supposed rather than certain. LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1 Medium
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WikipediaProvenance section, opening sentence
supposedly executed c. 1669
Background section, attribution controversy paragraph
as it is on a (recycled) wood panel and not on canvas
Provenance section, closing sentence
The trust gave it to the National Gallery of Art in 1937.
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Girl with a Red Hat is a small painting attributed to the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.
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Girl with a Red Hat is a small painting, signed by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is seen as one of a number of Vermeer's tronies, depictions of models fancifully dressed that were not (as far as is known) intended to be
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Girl with a Red Hat is a small painting, signed by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is seen as one of a number of Vermeer's tronies, depictions of models fancifully dressed that were not (as far as is known) intended to be
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Is Girl with a Red Hat genuinely a work by Johannes Vermeer, or a later imitation on a recycled wood panel unusual for his practice?
The panel is a recycled wood panel rather than canvas, atypical for Vermeer, and its attribution to him has been disputed by scholars on both sides; the National Gallery of Art carried out its own technical study to revisit the question.
What would resolve this Further technical and connoisseurship study (pigment analysis, dendrochronology of the panel, comparative brushwork study) reaching durable scholarly consensus on authorship.
Art history and technical conservation scienceGirl with a Red Hat - Wikipedia
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