1936.150.74: Portrait of a Young Woman in a Red Hat, after Vermeer

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1936.150.74

People

Kanji Nakamura, American (Nagasaki, Japan 1887 - 1932 Boston, MA)
After Jan Vermeer van Haarlem the Elder, Dutch (1628 - 1691)

Title

Portrait of a Young Woman in a Red Hat, after Vermeer

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

19th-20th century

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231315

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

21.6 x 16.8 cm (8 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.)
framed: 35.9 x 32.1 x 4.8 cm (14 1/8 x 12 5/8 x 1 7/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• label: tacked to frame, paper, typed: Copy by Kanji Nakamura after Jan Vermeer of Delft, but never / compared with the original. A published photograph was used / for the drawing and recollections for the coloring. / Given by the artist to Denman W. Ross in 1928 and presented / by the latter to the Study Series in 1932.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Kanji Nakamura, gift(?); to Denman W. Ross, Cambridge, Massachusetts, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1936.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Denman W. Ross, Class of 1875

Accession Year

1936

Object Number

1936.150.74

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

The original by Vermeer is in the National Gallery, Washington DC.

Publication History

• Alain Rérat, Vermeer, Hazan (Paris, France, 1993), fig. 37, pp. 116-117, repr. in color

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