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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 woman in black, the leering coupler, "in a nun's costume", [2]: 224 could be the eponymous procuress, while the man to her right, "wearing a black beret and a doublet with slashed sleeves", [2]: 172 has been identified as a self portrait of the artist; [3] there is a resemblance with the painter in Vermeer's The Art of Painting.
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.
Detail of Vermeer's Art of Painting showing the painter at his easel using a maulstick. The painting has only two figures, the painter and his subject, a woman with downcast eyes. The painter was thought to be a self-portrait of the artist; Jean-Louis Vaudoyer suggested the young woman could be his daughter.
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. The painting was painted around the same time as the better-known Girl with a Pearl Earring and has a near ...
Her mouth is ajar and her face, slightly pink, receives light from the right, which is unusual in the works of Johannes Vermeer. [3] However, after a study using the latest technology in preparation for a 2022 exhibition, titled Vermeer's Secrets [5] it was ascertained that Vermeer began by painting the portrait of a man wearing a wide-brimmed ...
Self-portrait with his wife, Marie-Suzanne Giroust, painting Henrik Wilhelm Peill, ... Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Johannes Vermeer. Sadko, by Ilya Repin.
Mistress and Maid (c. 1667) by Johannes Vermeer. Mistress and Maid (Dutch: Dame en dienstbode) is an oil-on-canvas painting produced by Johannes Vermeer c. 1667. It portrays two women, a mistress and her maid, as they look over the mistress' letter. The painting displays Vermeer's preference for yellow and blue, female models, and domestic scenes.