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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 ...
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.
The Procuress (Dutch: De koppelaarster) is a 1656 oil-on-canvas painting by the then 24-year-old Johannes Vermeer. It can be seen in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden . It is his first genre painting and shows a scene of contemporary life, an image of mercenary love [ 1 ] perhaps in a brothel .
Officer and Laughing Girl, also known as Officer and a Laughing Girl, Officer With a Laughing Girl or, in Dutch, De Soldaat en het Lachende Meisje (literally, The Soldier and the Laughing Girl), is an oil painting on canvas executed ca. 1657 by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. Its dimensions are 50.5 by 46 cm.
The Lacemaker is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), completed around 1669–1670 and held in the Louvre, Paris.The work shows a young woman wearing a yellow bodice, holding up a pair of bobbins in her left hand as she carefully places a pin in the pillow on which she is making her bobbin lace.
Pages in category "Paintings by Johannes Vermeer" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
The collection contains works by Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter, Frans Hals, Jacob van Ruisdael, Hans Holbein the Younger, and others. Originally, the 17th-century building was the residence of Count John Maurice of Nassau.
View of Delft (Dutch: Zicht op Delft) is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, painted c. 1659–1661. The painting of the Dutch artist's hometown is among his best known. [1] It is one of three known paintings of Delft by Vermeer, along with The Little Street and the lost painting House Standing in Delft, [2] and his only cityscape. [3]