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The World of Vermeer, 1632-1675. Time-Life Library of Art series. Amsterdam: Time-Life Books, 1985. ISBN 978-0-900-65858-7 OCLC 13302281; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), and Liedtke, Walter A. The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer / Walter Liedtke. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2009 OCLC 839735356
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]
Johannes Vermeer was born in 1632 in Delft, Holland. [1] He worked and lived in Delft all his life, although it is possible that he may have done an apprenticeship in another town such as Amsterdam or Utrecht for six years. A major stepping point in Vermeer's career was in 1653 when he joined the Guild of Saint Luke as a master and professional ...
The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer, exhibition catalogue fully online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Portrait of a Young Woman (cat. no. 9) Notable acquisitions 1979–1980 , fully digitized online as PDF from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on Portrait of a Young Woman (pp. 41–42)
[1] Young Woman with a Water Pitcher was purchased by Henry Gurdon Marquand in 1887 at a Paris gallery for $800. When Marquand brought it to the United States, it was the first Vermeer in America. Marquand donated the artwork along with other pieces in his collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. [2]
The Amsterdam Rijksmuseum will unite two iconic paintings from Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer early next year — The Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Milkmaid. In an unprecedented blockbuster ...
Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid (1658–1661). Dutch Golden Age painting is the painting of the Dutch Golden Age, a period in Dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century, [1] during and after the later part of the Eighty Years' War (1568–1648) for Dutch independence.
The work is seen as a bridge between the quiet restraint and self-containment of Vermeer's work of the 1660s and his relatively cooler work of the 1670s. It may have been partly inspired by Ter Borch's painting Woman Sealing a Letter. [1] The painting's canvas was almost certainly cut from the same bolt used for Woman with a Lute. [2]