The Astronomer Vermeer Poster

Poster Johannes Vermeer - The Astronomer

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Johannes or Jan Vermeer (1632 - 1675)
The Astronomer or Astrologer, 1668 - Oil on canvas, H. : 51 cm ; L. : 45 cm - Painting Department: Dutch Painting - Musée du Louvre, Paris.
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Characteristics

Dimensions
50 x 70 cm
Artist
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)
Art movements
17th century, Dutch paintings, Baroque
Maintenance
Store in a dry place, protected by a case or plastic bag
Theme
Gender and interior scene
Reference
IA200212
EAN
3336727122884
Matière de l'article
Paper
Package Dimensions
50cm x 70cm
Conservation museum
Paris - Musée du Louvre

The work and its artist

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch Baroque painter, born in Delft where he lived and worked his whole life. Although Vermeer began as an art salesman, he considered himself more of a painter. He only worked on commission and did not produce more than two or three paintings a year. This allowed him to provide for his wife and their eleven children. Vermeer worked the blues and yellows like no other painter. Considered the "master of Dutch light", his "Portrait of the Girl with the Pearl" is sometimes called "Mona Lisa of the North". Johannes Vermeer painted only 45 paintings in his lifetime, 35 of which have survived to this day. The painter is placed, with Rembrandt and Frans Hals, among the masters of the Dutch Golden Age.