| Artist | Johannes Vermeer |
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| Year | c. 1665-1666 |
| Type | Oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 23.2 cm × 18.1 cm (9.1 in × 7.1 in) |
| Location | National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
Girl with a Red Hat is a small painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, executed 1665-1666, in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. It is one of a number of Vermeer's tronies -- depictions of models fancifully dressed that were not (as far as is known) intended to be portraits of specific, identifiable subjects.
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The painting may have been among those owned by Vermeer's patron, Pieter Claesz van Ruijven (1624-1674), and possibly, through inheritance it may have been passed on to his wife, Maria de Knuijt (died 1681); her daughter, Magdalena van Ruijven (1655-1682); and Magdalena's husband, Jacob Abrahamsz Dissius (1653-1695). It is thought to have been sold in Amsterdam on May 16, 1696 (probably no. 39 or 40). It was bought at a sale at the Hôtel de Bouillon, in Paris on December 10, 1822 (no. 28.) by Baron Louis Marie Atthalin (1784-1856), then owned by inheritance to his nephew and adopted son, Laurent Atthalin; by inheritance to Baron Gaston Laurent-Atthelin (died 1911), Les Moussets, Limey, Seine-et-Oise; by inheritance to his wife, Baroness Laurent-Atthelin of Paris. The painting was sold by M. Knoedler & Co., New York and London, in November 1925 to Andrew W. Mellon, who deeded it on March 30, 1932 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust in Pittsburgh (a holding-place for Mellon's pictures while the NGA was being established), which gave it to the National Gallery of Art in 1937.[1]