artist: Johannes Vermeer

instance of: painting (38)

commissioned by: Pieter van Ruijven (1)

owned by: Netherlands (2) | Lucretia Johanna van Winter (2) | Pieter van Ruijven (2) | France (1) | Amsterdam (1) | Mauritshuis (1) | Six family (1) | Arnoldus Andries des Tombe (1) | Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (1) | Alphonse James de Rothschild (1) | Jan Gildemeester (1) | Joseph Duveen, 1st Baron Duveen (1) | Benjamin Altman (1) | Eugène Secrétan (1) | Joseph E. Widener (1) | Peter Arrell Brown Widener (1) | Magdalena van Ruijven (1) | John Waterloo Wilson (1)

movement: Dutch Golden Age painting (36) | Baroque (2) | mannerism (1)

genre: genre art (27) | portrait (5) | cityscape (2) | religious art (2) | tronie (1) | allegory (1) | mythological painting (1)

depicts: woman (17) | window (7) | table (4) | man (3) | letter (3) | musician (3) | painting (3) | map of Holland and West Friesland (3) | book (2) | girl (2) | geographic map (2) | allegory (2) | mirror (2) | pearl (2) | compass (2) | pitcher (2) | globe (2) | lute (2)

material used: oil paint (38) | canvas (16) | panel (2) | canvas (1)

collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art (5) | Rijksmuseum (4) | National Gallery of Art (4) | Mauritshuis (4) | The Frick Collection (3) | Gemäldegalerie (2) | National Gallery (2) | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (2) | Berlin State Museums (2) | private collection (2) | Department of Paintings of the Louvre (2) | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (1) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (1) | Städel Museum (1) | Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (1) | Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (1) | Kenwood House (1) | Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (1)

location: Metropolitan Museum of Art (6) | Rijksmuseum (4) | National Gallery of Art (4) | National Gallery (3) | Mauritshuis (3) | The Frick Collection (3) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (2) | Gemäldegalerie (2) | Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts (1) | Louvre Museum (1) | Buckingham Palace (1) | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (1) | Kunsthistorisches Museum (1) | Hermitage Museum (1) | Städel Museum (1) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | Ashmolean Museum (1) | Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (1)

exhibition history: Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (13) | Johannes Vermeer (1) | Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals (1) | The public and the private in the age of Vermeer (1) | Secretan sale 1889 (1)

main subject: Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary (1)

location of final assembly: Delft (2)

fabrication method: oil painting (1)

time period: Dutch Golden Age painting (1)