Johannes Vermeer timeline
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Diana and Her Companions
In this evocative mythological painting, Diana sits with her companions near the edge of a dark and impenetrable forest. As evening falls she gazes... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary is a painting finished in 1655 by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is housed in the National Gallery... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Officer and Laughing Girl
Because the costume of the girl (upper right) and the painting techniques resemble those of the Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, this... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Procuress
Signed at the lower right corner, in dark brown color: i v Meer. 1656 (ivM in ligature). The support is a hand-woven linen with a threat count of... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints A Girl Asleep
A Girl Asleep, also known as A Woman Asleep at Table, is a painting by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, 1657. It is housed in the Metropolitan... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window
The picture was acquired in 1724 by August III, elector of Saxony, together with a number of other paintings bought in Paris. The seller threw in... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Little Street
According to architectural historians, Vermeer shows a house which dates from the second half of the 15th c. or the beginning of the 16th c. The... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Girl Interrupted at Her Music
Music-making, a recurring subject in Vermeer’s interior scenes, was associated in the seventeenth century with courtship. In this painting of a... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Milkmaid
The effect of three-dimensionality is particularly evident in the modeling of the woman's head and body. Small touches of paint - white, light... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Wine Glass
The Wine Glass (Dutch: Het glas wijn, also known as The Glass of Wine or Lady and Gentleman Drinking Wine) is a painting by the Dutch artist... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Girl with a Wineglass
The woman's openly expressive face is somewhat atypical for Vermeer who tends to convey his sitters' hidden emotions through their discreet... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints View of Delft
The composition was built up in light and dark passages. The sky, foreground, and light parts of the water are laid in with lead white while the... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Art of Painting
Few paintings in the entire history of art seem as perfect as this one. Vermeer's extraordinary technical mastery, the crystal-clear light which... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Music Lesson
On the far side of a sunlit room with double windows a young woman stands to play on a clavecin. A man in elegant dress watches her and listens... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Woman Holding a Balance
Until recently this painting was best known as The Goldweigher or Girl Weighing Pearls. Microscopic analysis, however, has revealed the pans of the... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter is a painting finished around 1663-1664 by the Dutch Baroque painter Johannes Vermeer. It is housed in the... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Woman with a Lute
In this work of the early 1660s, a young woman in an ermine-trimmed jacket plays a lute and looks intently out the window. The viola da gamba on... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Woman with a Pearl Necklace
Over an off-white ground, black underpainting indicates shadows in the woman's back. An ocher layer top of the ground may cover the entire... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Woman with a Water Jug
Woman with a Water Jug, also known as Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, is a painting finished between 1660-1662 by the Dutch painter Johannes... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Girl with a Pearl Earring
The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring (Dutch: Het Meisje met de Parel) is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's masterworks and as the name... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Girl with a Red Hat
Aside from the expectant expression on the young woman's face, much of the vivacity of this extraordinary painting stems from the manner which it... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Portrait of a Young Woman
In the 1696 sale catalogue of paintings owned by Jacob Dissius, the son-in-law of Vermeer's patron Pieter van Ruijven, "a tronie in antique dress,... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Concert
The similarities between The Concert and The Music Lesson are such that they have often been dated at the same time. Both the conception of the... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints Mistress and Maid
The servant's interrogative gaze (detail left) is vivid, while the expression, the crucial expression, of the mistress is more obscure, partly... Read more
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Johannes Vermeer Paints The Love Letter
The subject of this painting is love. This is evident in the presence of musical references (the instrument held by the woman and the musical score... Read more