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    The Milkmaid was painted by Johannes Vermeer around 1657-1658. It depicts a young woman pouring milk from a container into a bowl. Vermeer restricts the palette to primary colors and uses geometric shapes and lighting to give the scene and figure a sense of weight and realism. In the background are wall tiles depicting Cupid and another figure, as well as a foot warmer, and light streams in from a window. The painting captures realistic details while conveying a dignified atmosphere through composition.

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    The Milkmaid (Vermeer) PDF

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    The Milkmaid was painted by Johannes Vermeer around 1657-1658. It depicts a young woman pouring milk from a container into a bowl. Vermeer restricts the palette to primary colors and uses geometric shapes and lighting to give the scene and figure a sense of weight and realism. In the background are wall tiles depicting Cupid and another figure, as well as a foot warmer, and light streams in from a window. The painting captures realistic details while conveying a dignified atmosphere through composition.

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    The Milkmaid was painted by Johannes Vermeer around 1657-1658. It depicts a young woman pouring milk from a container into a bowl. Vermeer restricts the palette to primary colors and uses geometric shapes and lighting to give the scene and figure a sense of weight and realism. In the background are wall tiles depicting Cupid and another figure, as well as a foot warmer, and light streams in from a window. The painting captures realistic details while conveying a dignified atmosphere through composition.

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    The Milkmaid (Vermeer) PDF

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    The Milkmaid was painted by Johannes Vermeer around 1657-1658. It depicts a young woman pouring milk from a container into a bowl. Vermeer restricts the palette to primary colors and uses geometric shapes and lighting to give the scene and figure a sense of weight and realism. In the background are wall tiles depicting Cupid and another figure, as well as a foot warmer, and light streams in from a window. The painting captures realistic details while conveying a dignified atmosphere through composition.

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    The Milkmaid

    Johannes Vermeer (Dutch)

    The Milkmaid was painted by


    Johannes Vermeer in about 1657–58.
    The small picture (18 x 16 1/8 in.
    [45.5 x 41 cm]) could be described as
    one of the last works of the Delft
    artist’s formative years (ca.
    1654–58), during which he adopted
    various subjects and styles from other
    painters and at the same time
    introduced effects based on direct
    observation and an exceptionally
    rened artistic sensibility.
    Vermeer restricted his palette mainly
    to the primary colors of red, blue, and
    yellow, and he favored geometric
    shapes (in The Milkmaid, the right
    triangle formed by the gure and the
    table are balanced within the
    rectangle of the picture eld). A low
    vantage point and a pyramidal
    buildup of forms from the left
    foreground to the woman’s head lend
    the gure monumentality and
    perhaps a sense of dignity.
    A foot warmer is on the oor behind
    her, near Delft wall tiles depicting
    Cupid (to the viewer's left) and a
    gure with a pole (to the right).
    Intense light streams from the
    window on the left side of the canvas.
    The painting is strikingly
    illusionistic, conveying not just
    details but a sense of the weight of the
    woman and the table. The light,
    though bright, doesn't wash out the
    rough texture of the bread crusts or
    atten the volumes of the maid's thick
    waist and rounded shoulders
    Johannes Vermeer (October 1632 – December
    1675), in original Dutch Jan Vermeer van
    Delft, was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who
    specialized in domestic interior scenes of
    middle class life. During his lifetime, he was a
    moderately successful provincial genre*
    (*depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying
    ordinary people engaged in common activities)
    painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague.
    Nonetheless, he produced relatively few
    paintings and evidently was not wealthy,
    leaving his wife and children in debt at his
    death.Vermeer worked slowly and with great
    care, and frequently used very expensive
    pigments. He is particularly renowned for his
    masterly treatment and use of light in his work.
    “Almost all his paintings," Hans Koningsberger
    wrote, "are apparently set in two smallish rooms
    in his house in Delft; they show the same
    furniture and decorations in various
    arrangements and they often portray the same
    people, mostly women."

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