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A Girl Asleep (Dutch: Slapend meisje), also known as A Woman Asleep, A Woman Asleep at Table, and A Maid Asleep, [1] is a painting by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, created c. 1657. [2] It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and may not be lent elsewhere under the terms of the donor's bequest. [1]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: The Allegory of Painting, also known as The Art of Painting: 1666–67 or c. 1666–68 [8] Oil on canvas, 100 × 120 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna: Mistress and Maid, also known as Lady with her Maidservant Holding a Letter: 1667/68 Oil on canvas, 90.2 × 78.7 cm Frick Collection, New York
Woman with a Lute, also known as Woman with a Lute Near a Window, is a painting created about 1662–1663 by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer and now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The painting depicts a young woman wearing an ermine-trimmed jacket and enormous pearl earrings as she eagerly looks out a window, presumably expecting ...
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Study of a Young Woman (also known as Portrait of a Young Woman or Girl with a Veil ) [ 2 ] [ 3 ] is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer , completed between 1665 and 1667, and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York.
Woman with a Water Jug (Dutch: Vrouw met waterkan), also known as Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, is a painting finished between 1660–1662 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer in the Baroque style. It is oil on canvas, 45.7cm × 40.6 cm, and is on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art website states, "This late work was surely commissioned, probably by a patron who was learned as well as devout." [ 1 ] The painting was one of those apparently not among the 21 works by the artist collection of Vermeer's main patron, Pieter Claesz van Ruijven (1624–1674), and auctioned off in the Dissius sale ...
The painting returned to New York in 2009, on the occasion of NY400, the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson's historic voyage (Amsterdam to Manhattan), where it was the central feature of a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, alongside several of the museum's five Vermeer works and other Dutch Golden Age paintings.
New York, USA: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN ... Seeing Beyond the Beauty of a Vermeer, The New York Times Magazine, May 25, ...