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The Geographer (Dutch: De geograaf) is a painting created by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in 1668–1669, and is now in the collection of the Städel museum in Frankfurt, Germany. It is closely related to Vermeer's The Astronomer , for instance using the same model in the same dress, and has sometimes been considered a pendant painting to it.
Detail of the painting The Procuress (c. 1656), proposed self portrait by Vermeer [1] The following is a list of paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), a Dutch Golden Age painter. After two or three early history paintings, he concentrated almost entirely on genre works, typically interiors with one or two figures. Vermeer's paintings of ...
The Geographer used the same model and other elements as The Astronomer. Portrayals of scientists were a favourite topic in 17th-century Dutch painting [1] and Vermeer's oeuvre includes both this astronomer and the slightly later The Geographer. Both are believed to portray the same man, [2] [3] [4] possibly Antonie van Leeuwenhoek. [5]
Johannes Vermeer (/ v ər ˈ m ɪər, v ər ˈ m ɛər / vər-MEER, vər-MAIR, Dutch: [joːˈɦɑnəs fərˈmeːr]; see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.
The Geographer (1668-69), by Johannes Vermeer. A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts.
Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting. Inspiration and Rivalry., 2017 ; The public and the private in the age of Vermeer, 2000; Vermeer, Rijksmuseum, 10 February 2023 - 4 June 2023 ; References: Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting, 66 ; Johannes Vermeer catalog raisonné, 1908, 5
The Geographer; A Girl Asleep; Girl Interrupted at Her Music; Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window; Girl with a Flute; Girl with a Pearl Earring; Girl with a Red Hat; The Girl with the Wine Glass; The Guitar Player (Vermeer)
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