The Soldier and the Laughing Girl
100% Hand Painted Johan Vermeer reproductions
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Title : The Soldier and the Laughing Girl Artist : Johan Vermeer Year : 1657 Type : Oil on canvas Size : 43 x 48 cm. Location: Private collection, Frick collection New York |
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VERMEER, Johan
1632 Delft – 1675 Delft. Baroque
Although Vermeer was one of the greatest of Dutch genre painters, with Frans Hals and Rembrandt, and his work is unique in the history of art, very little is known about his life.
In 1653 he married Catharina Bolens, whom he often portrayed in his pictures. He worked slowly and therefore his output was small, and insufficient to keep a large family, although he achieved fairly high prices. He tried to supplement his income by acting as an art dealer, but this also failed.
Only one of his 36 survivings paintings is dated. The pictures with which Vermeer’s name is now mostly associated were paintings shortly before and after 1660, including ‘Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window’, ‘The Milkmaid’, ‘Woman Holding a Balance’ and ‘The Artist’s Studio’. In these intimate scenes, light itself seems to have become the subject of the picture; a moment of stillness captured on canvas. Vermeer stands apart from his contemporary genre painters through his superb draughtmanship and skill in perspective, his colour harmonies,in which cool blue and a brilliant yellow predominate. On his death his pictures were auctioned off and he was forgotten, and it was not until towards the end of the 19th century that his true significance was recognised.
Other Famous Work from Johan Vermeer |
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| A Girl with a Pearl Earring | The Girl with a Wine Glass | The Milkmaid |
| c1665 | 1659-1660 | c1658-1660 |
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