Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life. He was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime but evidently was not wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.
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| Beautiful paintings by Johannes Vermeer in the mid-17th century |
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 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.”
Vermeer was recognized during his lifetime in Delft and The Hague, but his modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death. In the 19th century, he 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.
Like some major Dutch Golden Age artists such as Frans Hals and Rembrandt, Vermeer never went abroad. Similar to Rembrandt, he was an avid art collector and dealer.
These amazing pics of beautiful paintings are part of Vermeer's work from between the 1650s and 1670s.
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| A Maid Asleep (Oil on canvas), circa 1656-57 |
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| The Procuress (Oil on canvas), 1656 |
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| “De Soldaat en het Lachende Meisje” “Officer and Laughing Girl” (Oil on canvas), circa 1657 |
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| Girl Reading a Letter (Oil on canvas), circa 16 57-59 |
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| The Milkmaid (Oil on canvas), circa 1660 |
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| The Music Lesson (also known as A Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman) (Oil on canvas), circa 1662-65 |
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| Woman Holding a Balance (Oil on canvas), circa 1662-63 |
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| Woman with a Lute (Oil on canvas), circa 1662-63 |
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| Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace (Oil on canvas), circa 1662 |
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| Young Woman with a Water Pitcher (Oil on canvas), circa 1662 |
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| A Lady Writing (Oil on canvas), circa 16 65-66 |
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| Study of a Young Woman (Oil on canvas), circa 1665-67 |
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| The Girl with a Pearl Earring (Oil on canvas), circa 1665 |
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| Woman in Blue Reading a Letter (Oil on canvas), circa 1665 |
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| Mistress and Maid (Oil on canvas), circa 1666-67 |
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| The Art of Painting (Oil on canvas), circa 1666-68 |
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| The Astronomer (Oil on canvas), circa 16 68 |
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| “De liefdesbrief” “The Love Letter” (Oil on canvas), circa 1669 |
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| The Lacemaker (Oil on canvas mounted on wood), circa 16 69-70 |
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| A Young Woman Seated at a Virginal (Oil on canvas), circa 1670-72 |
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| A Young Woman standing at a Virginal (Oil on canvas), circa 1670-72 |
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| Allegory of the Catholic Faith (Oil on canvas), circa 1670-72 |
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| Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid (Oil on canvas), circa 1670-71 |
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