Vermeer paintings

Johannes Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) tells the story of Griet, a 16-year-old Dutch girl who becomes a maid in the house of the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675). Her calm and p…

Jan Vermeer van Delft ( fragment ).

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Download free image of Woman Reading a Letter (ca. 1663) by Johannes Vermeer. Original from The Rijksmuseum. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel. by Rijksmuseum (Source) about light, person, art, house, and public domain art 1015470

Portrait of an Artist in His Studio (traditionally identified as Willem van de Velde II) by Michiel van Musscher, oil on panel,47.5x37cm.Dickinson Gallery, London and New York.

The subject of writing and receiving letters, which recurs frequently in Vermeer’s work, is given an exceptional sense of dramatic tension in this painting of two women arrested in some moment of mysterious crisis. The lack of final modelling in the mistress’ head and figure and the relatively plain background indicate that this late work by Vermeer was left unfinished. Nevertheless, the artist seldom if ever surpassed the subtly varied effects of light seen here as it gleams from the pearl…

Pieter de Hoogh

Personal high-resolution, color-accurate photograph taken at the 2023 exhibition "Vermeer" at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, which displayed most of Vermeer's paintings. Link to other Vermeer paintings

Jan Vermeer (Johannes Vermeer), Delft 1632 - 1675 Briefschreiberin und Dienstmagd / Lady Writing a Letter, with her Maid, Detail (um 1670) The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin Considered one of the principal Dutch painters, Johannes Vermeer specialised in genre scenes, particular those depicting women in domestic settings. Vermeer’s work displays an unprecedented level of artistic mastery in its illusion of reality. His figures are often quiet and inactive, which contributes to the solemn…