JAN VERMEER VAN DELFT, ST. PRAXEDIS catalogue edited by Józef GRABSKI Vienna - Cracow 1991 240 × 260 mm, Pages: 28 2 full-page colour plates, 14 colour photographs +16 b&w photographs paperback ISBN 3-900731-40-3 On the cover: Jan Vermeer, St. Praxedis, 1655, Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection, Princeton, NJ

An exhibition in the summer of 1991 at the Wawel Royal Castle in Cracow juxtaposed two fascinating versions of a painting recently discovered to be the earliest dated work by Jan Vermeer. Vermeer had copied the Italian composition while still at the beggining of his career. The essays by Arthur K. Wheelock from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and Lionel Koenig from the C.E.D.A.R.T. in Florence, demonstrate the complex methodological studies, art historical as well as technical (radiographic analysis, ultraviolet, infrared and pigment examinations), involved in securing the attribution to the Dutch master.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
Józef Grabski, Jacek Purchla

ST. PRAXEDIS

JAN VERMEER

FELICE FICHERELLI

"ST. PRAXEDIS": THE EARLIEST DATED PAINTING BY VERMEER
Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr.

SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS
Lionel Koenig

TECHNICAL DATA

"ST. PRAXEDIS" BY JAN VERMEER

"ST. PRAXEDIS" BY FELICE FICHERELLI

A RADIOGRAPHIC COMPARISON OF THE "ST. PRAXEDIS"

PAINTINGS BY VERMEER AND FICHERELLI

BIBLIOGRAPHY