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Johannes Vermeer Girl interrupted at her music mk76
Painted c.1660
Oil on canvas
15 1/2x17 1/2in
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Johannes Vermeer Details of Mistress and maid mk76
Painted probable between 1665 and 1670
Oil on canvas
35 1/2x31in
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Johannes Vermeer Mistress and maid mk76
Painted probable between 1665 and 1670
Oil on canvas
35 1/2x31in
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Johannes Vermeer Recreation by our Gallery mk79
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Johannes Vermeer Woman Reading a Letter mk164
c.1663-64
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Johannes Vermeer The Schilderconst MK169
ca. 1670 Cloth
120x100cm
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Johannes Vermeer Astronomers mk255 for in 1668. 0.51 x 0.45 meters canvas. Paris, the Louvre
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Johannes Vermeer Lace embroidery woman mk255 for in the years 1669-1670. 0.24 x 0.21 meters canvas. Paris, the Louvre
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Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring, Girl with a Pearl Earring, known as the "Mona Lisa of the North"
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Johannes Vermeer Milkmaid Milkmaid (1658-1660)
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Johannes Vermeer The Girl with a Wine Glass, The Girl with a Wine Glass, 1660
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Johannes Vermeer View of Delft, View of Delft, 1660-61
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Johannes Vermeer Officer and a Laughing Girl, Officer and a Laughing Girl, 1657-59
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Johannes Vermeer The Little Street, The Little Street, 1657/58
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Johannes Vermeer A Young Woman Seated at the Virginal with a painting of Dirck van Baburen in the background A Young Woman Seated at the Virginal (1670) with a painting of Dirck van Baburen in the background
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Johannes Vermeer Brieflesendes Madchen am offenen Fenster Technique Deutsch: Öl auf Leinwand
English: Oil on canvas
Current location Deutsch: Gemäldegalerie Deutsch: Dresden
Notes Deutsch: Genremalerei
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Johannes Vermeer Girl reading a letter by an open window Technique Deutsch: Öl auf Leinwand
English: Oil on canvas
Dimensions English: 83 x 64.5 cm
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Johannes Vermeer Youg woman playing a guitar Technique Oil on canvas
Dimensions 53 X 46.3 cm
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Johannes Vermeer Christ in the House of Martha and Mary before 1655(1655)
Oil on canvas
160 ?? 142 cm (62.99 ?? 55.91 in)
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Johannes Vermeer Youg woman playing a guitar Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions Expression error: Missing operand for *53 ?? 46.3 cm
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Johannes Vermeer
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One of the most talented painters in the Dutch Golden Age , 1632-1675
was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. What strikes in most of his paintings is a certain love, which easily could be called a love sickness, for the people and the objects in his paintings. He created a world more perfect than any he had witnessed. After having been virtually forgotten for nearly one hundred years,
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