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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.
Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) was a French cartographer who served under two kings in matters of geography. ... He died in Paris on 7 July 1667 ...
1667/68 Oil on canvas, 90.2 × 78.7 cm Frick Collection, New York: Girl with a Red Hat (attribution to Vermeer has been questioned) [15] 1668 or c. 1665–67 [8] Oil on panel, 22.8 × 18 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington: The Astronomer: 1668 Oil on canvas, 50.8 × 46.3 cm Louvre, Paris: The Geographer: 1668/69 Oil on canvas, 53 × 46.6 cm
Samuel Bochart (30 May 1599 – 16 May 1667) was a French Protestant biblical scholar, a student of Thomas Erpenius and the teacher of Pierre Daniel Huet.His two-volume Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan (Caen 1646) exerted a profound influence on seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis.
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 ...
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]
This is one of only four dated Vermeer paintings, the others being The Procuress (1656), The Astronomer (1668) and The Geographer (1669). Vermeer's two early history paintings, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary and Diana and Her Companions, are dated by almost all art historians to 1654–6, although opinions differ as to which is earlier.
Johannes Vermeer, View of Delft (1660-61), oil on canvas, 96.5 × 117.5 cm; a painting once owned by Van Ruijven Pieter Claeszoon van Ruijven (December 1624 – 7 August 1674) has been known as Johannes Vermeer's main patron for the better part of the artist's career, but in 2023 his wife Maria de Knuijt was identified by the curators of the 2023 exhibition of Vermeer's works at the ...