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Jan Vermeer
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1632-1675
Johannes (or Jan) Vermeer is now recognized as one of the great Dutch painters, but while he was alive he could barely make ends meet, and his artistic achievement was almost entirely ignored for 200 years after his death. Little is known about his personal life, other than he died poor and young and left behind a wife and eleven children. Vermeer is admired for his realistic style, his subtle use of color and light and his unusual and inventive brush technique, but fewer than forty of his paintings exist. His most famous works include domestic scenes such as Girl With a Peal Earring (1665) and The Music Lesson (1662-65), and tranquil landscapes such as The Little Street (1657-58) and View of Delft (1659-60). Although his actual birth and death dates are unknown, Vermeer was baptized 31 October 1632 and buried 15 December 1675... During his career he used the names Johannes van der Meer, Johannes Vermeer and Jan Vermeer
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Painting ID:: 10270
A Lady and Two Gentlemen
1659
Oil on canvas
78 x 68 cm
Herzog Anton
-Ulrich-Museum
Braunschweig
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Painting ID:: 10271
View of Delft
1659
Oil on canvas,
98,5 x 117,5 cm
Mauritshuis,
The Hague
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Painting ID:: 10272
Girl Interrupted at Her Music
1660
Oil on canvas,
39,4 x 44,5 cm
Frick Collection,
New York
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Painting ID:: 10273
A Lady Writing a Letter
1665-66
Oil on canvas,
45 x 40 cm
National Gallery
of Art,Washington
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Painting ID:: 10274
Woman with a Lute near Window
1663
Oil on canvas,
51,4 x 45,7 cm
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York
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Jan Vermeer
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1632-1675
Johannes (or Jan) Vermeer is now recognized as one of the great Dutch painters, but while he was alive he could barely make ends meet, and his artistic achievement was almost entirely ignored for 200 years after his death. Little is known about his personal life, other than he died poor and young and left behind a wife and eleven children. Vermeer is admired for his realistic style, his subtle use of color and light and his unusual and inventive brush technique, but fewer than forty of his paintings exist. His most famous works include domestic scenes such as Girl With a Peal Earring (1665) and The Music Lesson (1662-65), and tranquil landscapes such as The Little Street (1657-58) and View of Delft (1659-60). Although his actual birth and death dates are unknown, Vermeer was baptized 31 October 1632 and buried 15 December 1675... During his career he used the names Johannes van der Meer, Johannes Vermeer and Jan Vermeer
. Related Artists to Jan Vermeer: | per wickenberg | J.F. Hockert | Huntington Daniel | John Crome | Vasily Vereshchagin |
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