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74. For Van Mieris and Cosimo (who visited the artist in June 1669), see Naumann 1981, vol. r, p. 27. For Netscher and Cosimo (1668), see Wieseman 1991, pp. 14-15. The grand duke also visited Gerard Dou in 1669 (see Hoogewerff1919, p. 251). On June 16, 1669, Cosimo stopped in Delft on his way from Rotterdam to The Hague (see Hoogewerff1919, pp. 233-35). After visiting a fair on the Marlct and a Beguinage with "many Catholic women:' he went "to see some pictures in the house of a painter:' and was then conducted to the houses of two prominent citizens of Delft to see "other fairly good [paintings] and a variety of other curiosities." In one of the houses he encountered the wife and daughters of Cornelis Tromp. Finally, he went to a Catholic church in a "Beguinage rather larger than the one already mentioned." Although Cosimo may have visited a different artist, Vermeer is a strong candidate, given the grand duke's association with other celebrated genre painters and with courtiers at The Hague (for example, Gentile's patron, Johan Maurits). The visit to Catholic institutions recalls Monconys's trip to Delft in August r663 (discussed above). The most intriguing passage of the journal reads: "ando a vedere alcuni quadri in casa di un pittore, dal quale fu poi condotta in due case de' principali della citra a vederne alcuni assai buoni con diverse altre curiosita. Andata dopoi in una chiesa di cattolici, che si ritrova dentro un beghinaggio assai maggiore del gia nominata" (Hoogewerff 1919, p. 235).

75· Montias 1977, pp. 280-81, no. 46a, and Montias 1989, p. 308 (doc. no. 251, dated April22, 1653).