Postcard Vermeer - The Astronomer

IC400437

JOHANNES VERMEER (1632 - 1675)
The Astronomer, also called The Astrologer (detail), 1668
Oil on canvas. H. 51 ; l.45 cm
Paris, musée du Louvre, département des Peintures
© Photo Rmn-GP (musée du Louvre) / R.-G. Ojéda

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Characteristics

Maintenance
Store in a dry place, protected by a case or plastic bag
Artist
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675)
Art movements
17th century, Dutch paintings, Baroque
Material of the original work
Huile sur toile.
Themes
Portrait, Physical and technical sciences, Gender and interior scene, Made in France
Reference
IC400437
EAN
3336728358619
Matière de l'article
Coated paper
Model dimensions
13.5cm x 13.5cm
Package Dimensions
13.5cm x 13.5cm
Editor
© Photo GrandPalaisRmn
Conservation museum
Paris - Musée du Louvre

The work and its artist

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) (2)

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.
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