Fabritius self-portrait (detail)

A painting by Fabritius. "Een stuckie schildery door fabritius", In the Forehouse, Room A.

Many paintings made by Carel Fabritius (1622-1654) have been lost in the course of time. He was severely injured by the Delft gun powder explosion and died a few days afterwards. It is not known which one of his paintings was in Vermeer's posession.

A Fabritius exhibition was held in the Mauritshuis. Read my book review of the Carel Fabritius exhibition catalogue.

Note : This object was part of the Vermeer-inventory as listed by the clerk working for Delft notary public J. van Veen. He made this list on February 29, 1676, in the Thins/Vermeer home located on Oude Langendijk on the corner of Molenpoort. The painter Johannes Vermeer had died there at the end of December 1675. His widow Catherina and their eleven children still lived there with her mother Maria Thins.

The transcription of the 1676 inventory, now in the Delft archives, is based upon its first full publication by A.J.J.M. van Peer, "Drie collecties...", Oud Holland, 1957, pp. 98-103.

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