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The Concert
Painting ID:: 86121
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Johannes Vermeer
The Concert
Date c. 1664(1664)
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 72,5 x 64,7 cm
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Frauenportrat
Painting ID:: 89456
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Johannes Vermeer
Frauenportrat
1655-1660
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 82 x 65 cm
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Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Painting ID:: 90152
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Johannes Vermeer
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
ca. 1662
Oil on canvas; 18 x 16 in.
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Study of a young woman
Painting ID:: 92484
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Johannes Vermeer
Study of a young woman
c. between 1665(1665) and 1667(1667)
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 44.5 X 40 cm (17.5 X 15.7 in)
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The concert.
Painting ID:: 92511
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Johannes Vermeer
The concert.
c. 1663-1666
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 72.5 X 64.7 cm (28.5 X 25.5 in)
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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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