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Johannes Vermeer
One of the most talented painters in the Dutch Golden Age , 1632-1675
was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. What strikes in most of his paintings is a certain love, which easily could be called a love sickness, for the people and the objects in his paintings. He created a world more perfect than any he had witnessed. After having been virtually forgotten for nearly one hundred years,
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Painting ID:: 31778
Girl interrupted at her music
mk76
Painted c.1660
Oil on canvas
15 1/2x17 1/2in
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Painting ID:: 31779
Details of Mistress and maid
mk76
Painted probable between 1665 and 1670
Oil on canvas
35 1/2x31in
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Painting ID:: 31780
Mistress and maid
mk76
Painted probable between 1665 and 1670
Oil on canvas
35 1/2x31in
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Painting ID:: 32554
Recreation by our Gallery
mk79
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Painting ID:: 41516
Woman Reading a Letter
mk164
c.1663-64
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Johannes Vermeer
One of the most talented painters in the Dutch Golden Age , 1632-1675
was a Dutch Baroque painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of ordinary life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death. Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours, sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work. What strikes in most of his paintings is a certain love, which easily could be called a love sickness, for the people and the objects in his paintings. He created a world more perfect than any he had witnessed. After having been virtually forgotten for nearly one hundred years,
. Related Artists to Johannes Vermeer: | Francois Quesnel | Dwight William Tryon | Robert Braithwaite Martineau | William Hogarth | Carl Christian Vogel von Vogelstein |
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