Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (Brieflezend meisje bij het venster) c.1657–1659 Oil on canvas, 83 x 64.5 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (c.1657-1659)
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Girl interrupted at Her Music (c.1658-1659)
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Girl interrupted at Her Music (Onderbreking van de muziek) c.1658–1659 Oil on canvas, 39.4 x 44.5 cm Frick Collection, New York Music-making, a recurring subject in Vermeer’s interior scenes, was associated in the seventeenth century with courtship. In…
The Concert (1663-1666)
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Concert (Het concert) 1663–1666 Oil on canvas, 72.5 x 64.7 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston In a pristine domestic parlor, two women and a man concentrate on making music. The standing woman holds a sheet of…
The Astronomer (1668)
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Astronomer (De astronoom) 1668 Oil on canvas 51 x 45 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Celestial globe by J. Hondius (1600) and astronomy manual by Metius (1621) opening to the chapter devoted to the stars, with engraving…
The Art of Painting (c.1666-1668)
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) The Art of Painting (De Schilderkunst) c.1666–1668 Oil on canvas, 120 x 100 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Signature: Marked on the lower border strip of the map: I Ver-Meer Inscribed on the top border of the map: NOVA…
Allegory of Faith (1670-1672)
Vermeer, Jan (1632-1675) Allegory of Faith (Allegorie op het geloof) 1670–1672 Oil on canvas, 114.3 x 88.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture, made at a moment when public celebrations of the Mass were forbidden in the Dutch…
Nature morte au bouquet (1871)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nature morte au bouquet (Still Life with Bouquet) 1871 Oil on canvas, 73.7 × 59.1 × 3.2 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston “Painting is done to decorate walls. So it should be as rich as possible. For me…
Portrait de Gauguin (1888)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Portrait de Gauguin (Portrait of Gauguin / Man in Red Beret) 1888 Oil on jute on panel, 38.2 cm x 33.8 cm Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam F0546 Arles, December 1, 1888 Van Gogh painted his friend, the…
Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood (1885)
Sargent, John Singer (1856-1925) Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood 1885 Oil on canvas, 54 x 64.8 cm Tate Britain, London Sargent painted two portraits of Claude Monet, one of which, showing the sitter in profile, was exhibited at…
La Chambre de Van Gogh à Arles (1889)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) La Chambre de Van Gogh à Arles (Van Gogh’s Bedroom in Arles) 1889 Oil on canvas, 57.3 x 73.5 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris (F0483-JH1793) Van Gogh produced three, almost identical paintings on the theme of his bedroom. The…