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Girl interrupted at her music
Painting ID:: 31778
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Johannes Vermeer
Girl interrupted at her music
mk76
Painted c.1660
Oil on canvas
15 1/2x17 1/2in
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Details of Mistress and maid
Painting ID:: 31779
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Johannes Vermeer
Details of Mistress and maid
mk76
Painted probable between 1665 and 1670
Oil on canvas
35 1/2x31in
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Mistress and maid
Painting ID:: 31780
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Johannes Vermeer
Mistress and maid
mk76
Painted probable between 1665 and 1670
Oil on canvas
35 1/2x31in
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Recreation by our Gallery
Painting ID:: 32554
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Johannes Vermeer
Recreation by our Gallery
mk79
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Woman Reading a Letter
Painting ID:: 41516
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Johannes Vermeer
Woman Reading a Letter
mk164
c.1663-64
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Johannes Vermeer
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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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