Johannes Vermeer - Saint Praxidis, after Felice Ficherelli 1655

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Johannes Vermeer - Saint Praxidis, after Felice Ficherelli 1655

Saint Praxidis, after Felice Ficherelli 1655
102x83cm oil/canvas
Private Collection, On loan to the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Japan
The image is only being used for informational and educational purposes

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The painting shows the saint squeezing a martyr's blood from a sponge into an ornate vessel. It is closely related to a work by Ficherelli from 1640–45, now in the Collection Fergnani in Ferrara, and is generally assumed to be a copy of it (though see below for an alternative interpretation). The most obvious difference between the two is that there is no crucifix in the Ferrara work. It is Vermeer's only known close copy of another work.
This is one of only four dated Vermeer paintings, the others being The Procuress (1656), The Astronomer (1668) and The Geographer (1669). Vermeer's two early history paintings, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary and Diana and Her Companions, are dated by almost all art historians to 1654-6, although opinions differ as to which is earlier.