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A Girl Asleep (Dutch: Slapend meisje), also known as A Woman Asleep, A Woman Asleep at Table, and A Maid Asleep, [1] is a painting by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, created c. 1657. [2] It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and may not be lent elsewhere under the terms of the donor's bequest. [1]
File:Vermeer - Girl Asleep.jpg: File:Johannes Vermeer - A woman asleep 1656-57.jpg Version from www.met-museum.org: File:A Maid Asleep - Painting of Vermeer, with frame.jpg Reproduction by Wikimedia Commons
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.
Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid (Dutch: Schrijvende vrouw met dienstbode) is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, completed in 1670–1671 and held in the National Gallery of Ireland, in Dublin, Ireland. The painting shows a standing woman seemingly acting as a messenger between the seated younger lady and her unseen lover.
A young lady who is being brought a letter by a maid: The Love Letter: c. 1669–1670: Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum [18] 7: A young lady who is being brought a letter by a maid: Mistress and Maid: c. 1667: New York, Frick Collection [26] [27] [d] 8: A drunken sleeping maid at a table: A Girl Asleep: c. 1657–1658: New York, Metropolitan Museum of ...
A Girl Asleep; Girl Interrupted at Her Music; Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window; Girl with a Flute; Girl with a Pearl Earring; Girl with a Red Hat; The Girl with the Wine Glass; The Guitar Player (Vermeer)
On the left side of the painting is a multi-paned window, from which the light source is provided for the scene. Vermeer used the same window design in nine of his other works (The Music Lesson, The Girl with the Wine Glass, The Glass of Wine, Officer and Laughing Girl, Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid, Woman with a Water Jug, Woman with a Lute, Woman Holding a Balance, and Woman with a ...
(A wall map may not have been very out of place in a humble workroom such as the cold kitchen where the maid toiled: large maps in 17th-century Holland were inexpensive ways of decorating bare walls.) [3] He originally placed a large, conspicuous clothes basket (the Rijksmuseum web page calls it a "sewing basket") [1] near the bottom of the ...