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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.
Mistress and Maid, also known as Lady with her Maidservant Holding a Letter: 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 ...
(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 ...
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)
It is now one of three pictures by Vermeer in The Frick Collection in New York. [2] [3] Officer and Laughing Girl includes many of the characteristics of Vermeer's style. The main subject is a woman in a yellow dress, light is coming from the left-hand side of the painting from an open window, and there is a large map on the wall.
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 ...