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/
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Year Created LocationNational Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1 Medium
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The Smiling Girl, formerly thought to be by Johannes Vermeer, was donated by collector Andrew W. Mellon in 1937 to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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c. 1925
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Oil on canvas
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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.
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The Smiling Girl, formerly thought to be by Johannes Vermeer, was donated by collector Andrew W. Mellon in 1937 to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Now widely considered to be a fake, the painting was deemed by the
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