The Art of Painting
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The Art of Painting, also known as The Allegory of Painting, or Painter in his Studio, is a 17th-century oil on canvas painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is owned by the Austrian Republic
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Detail of Vermeer's Art of Painting showing the painter at his easel using a maulstick.
The Procuress (Vermeer)
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The Procuress is a 1656 oil-on-canvas painting by the then 24-year-old Johannes Vermeer. It can be seen in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. It is his first genre painting and shows a scene
The Art of Painting
…title of the painting. Its composition and iconography make it Vermeer's most complex work. After Vermeer's Christ in the House of Martha and Mary and The Procuress, it is his largest work. This illusionistic painting is one of Vermeer's most famous. In 1868 Théophile Thoré-Bürger, known today for his rediscovery…
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Dirck van Baburen, The Procuress, 1622, oil on canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The painting was owned by Maria Thins, mother-in-law of Johannes Vermeer, who reproduced it within two of his own paintings.