Shop art print and framed art The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer

 
 
The artwork
 
View in room
 
Product
details
Share
Share on...
 
 
 
Subjects : Food, Genre scenes, Portrait
Keywords : Painting, bonnet, domestic, kitchen, milk, servant, table
This painting is highly appreciated by our customers, it is a sure value.
Need inspiration ?
Our recommendation

Our recommendation for The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer

To fully enjoy «The Milkmaid» by Johannes Vermeer, we recommend the medium size (67.5x60 cm) printed on hand stretched canvas, with the gilded mouldings - thin frame.
The artwork

The Milkmaid

The Dairymaid (Het melkmeisje or De melkmeid in Dutch) is an oil painting on canvas measuring 45.5 × 41 cm, produced around 1658 by Johannes Vermeer, known as "Vermeer of Delft", and exhibited since 1908 at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The work is one of Vermeer's most famous, and indeed one of the most famous in the history of painting - its use for commercial purposes is no doubt one of the reasons why it is so popular in France. The only painting by Vermeer in which the main subject is a woman of humble circumstances (he treated the female subject from other angles, notably in The Young Girl with a Pearl), this genre scene suggests the calm and tranquillity of domestic chores in the healthy, peaceful atmosphere of a corner of a room. Soft light divides the space between areas of shadow and light, illuminating the still life of the table in the foreground, in particular the bread in the basket, studded with small touches of light. The generously-shaped milkmaid is absorbed in her feeding activity, watching, as the viewer does, the thin trickle of milk dripping from her jug into a dish, an instantaneous image fixed in eternity by the painter's brush. No one can really know what the woman is thinking, and the painting's fascination may lie precisely in the fact that it resists scholarly discourse, remaining open to personal investment on the part of the viewer. As Ernst Gombrich points out in his History of Art : - Ernst Hans Gombrich, History of Art, p. 433." A woman, [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the classical period. It belongs to the baroque style.

 

« The Milkmaid » is kept at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

 

Find the full description of The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer on Wikipedia.

The artist

Johannes Vermeer

Explore the work of
Johannes Vermeer

Why do we offer different type of prints ? And what’s the difference ?
Our art prints are printed reproductions of original artworks. We provide you the choice between different
print materials depending on the style you want to achieve.
Read bellow for more information about each material.
 
The Réserve Muzéo

- 30% !

Make good deals by browsing our Reserve : editions of our catalog which await their purchaser at a low price.

I take advantage of it