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Johannes Vermeer - Girl Reading A Letter By An Open Window

Girl Reading A Letter By An Open Window

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
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The Artist died in 1675 so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries where the copyright term is the Artist's life plus 70 years or fewer.
Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. Nonetheless, he produced relatively few paintings and evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death.

Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, and frequently used very expensive pigments. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.

"Almost all his paintings," Hans Koningsberger wrote, "are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft; they show the same furniture and decorations in various arrangements and they often portray the same people, mostly women."

His modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death. He was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th-century Dutch painting (Grand Theatre of Dutch Painters and Women Artists) and was thus omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art for nearly two centuries. In the 19th century, Vermeer was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Théophile Thoré-Bürger, who published an essay attributing 66 pictures to him, although only 34 paintings are universally attributed to him today. Since that time, Vermeer's reputation has grown, and he is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

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Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher (ca. 1662)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
The Wine Glass

The Wine Glass (circa 1658-1660)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
Diana and Her Nymphs

Diana and Her Nymphs (C. 1653 - 1654)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
View of Delft

View of Delft (c. 1660 - 1661)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
The Milkmaid

The Milkmaid (c. 1660)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
The Geographer

The Geographer (1669)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
View of Houses in Delft, Known as ‘The Little Street’

View of Houses in Delft, Known as ‘The Little Street’ (c. 1658)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
Girl with a Flute

Girl with a Flute (probably 1665-1675)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace

Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace (from 1663 until 1665)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
Study of a Young Woman

Study of a Young Woman (ca. 1665–67)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
Woman Reading a Letter

Woman Reading a Letter (c. 1663)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
The Love Letter

The Love Letter (c. 1669 - c. 1670)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
The Art of Painting

The Art of Painting

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
Woman Holding a Balance

Woman Holding a Balance (c. 1664)

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
Lady At The Virginal With A Gentleman, ‘the Music Lesson’

Lady At The Virginal With A Gentleman, ‘the Music Lesson’

Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632 - 1675)
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