Vermeer's Interiors
Only about 35 of Vermeer's paintings survive, and most show one or two people in a quiet room lit by a window.
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About the series
Johannes Vermeer lived and worked in Delft, in the Dutch Republic, and fewer than 40 of his paintings survive. They are not a planned series, but most share one setting: a corner of a room, a window on the left, a tiled floor or a table with a rug, and a single figure at work, reading or making music.
The light is soft and falls from one side, picking out skin, fabric and plaster walls. The Milkmaid, Woman Reading a Letter and The Love Letter are in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The Art of Painting is in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, and The Lacemaker is in the Louvre in Paris. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds five of his paintings, more than any other museum.
Most originals are small, so a small or medium size stays close to Vermeer's scale. Two interiors with light from the same side hang well as a pair.
