Johannes Vermeer

1632–1675 · Baroque

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. He produced relatively few paintings, primarily earning his living as an art dealer. He was not wealthy; at his death, his wife was left in debt.

37 paintings

• Girl Interrupted at her Music (1660)
• The Music Lesson (1662)
• Mistress and Maid (1666)
• Woman with a Water Jug (1660)
• The Guitar Player (1672)
• The Geographer (1668)
• A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals (1670)
• Officer and Laughing Girl (1658)
• The Procuress (1656)
• Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid (1670)
• A Girl Asleep (1657)
• Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (1658)
• Woman with a Lute (1662)
• A Lady Writing a Letter (1665)
• Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1650)
• Saint Praxedis (1655)
• Portrait of a Young Woman (1665)
• Woman with a Pearl Necklace (1660)
• The Art of Painting (1667)
• The Lacemaker (1669)
• The Astronomer (1664)
• Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665)
• Diana and her Nymphs (1650)
• View of Delft (1661)
• Allegory of the Catholic Faith (ca. 1670–72)
• A Maid Asleep (ca. 1656–57)
• Young Woman with a Lute (ca. 1662–63)
• A Young Woman seated at a Virginal (1670)
• A Young Woman Standing at a Virginal (1670)
• Woman Holding a Balance (c. 1664)
• Girl with a Flute (c. 1669/1675)
• A Lady Writing (c. 1665)
• Girl with the Red Hat (c. 1669)
• Woman in Blue Reading a Letter (1664)
• The Milkmaid (1660)
• The Little Street (1658)
• The Love Letter (1668)