Where are the Vermeer paintings at The Met?
Where are the Vermeer paintings at The Met?
Exhibition Overview. On the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson’s historic voyage to Manhattan from Amsterdam, that city’s Rijksmuseum has sent The Milkmaid, perhaps the most admired painting by Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), to the Metropolitan Museum.
What is the story behind the milkmaid?
Vermeer’s Milkmaid is a fragment of ordinary life made immortal on the canvas. The painting portrays a poor and bare room where a woman is pouring some milk from a jug. The subject of this painting is not the woman, but rather the gesture she is making, that is to say pouring the milk.
How much is the milkmaid painting worth?
The first painting by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer to come to auction in more than 80 years — and one that for decades has been suspected of being fake — sold for $30 million Wednesday night at Sotheby’s here.
Does The Met have any Vermeer paintings?
By most counts, only thirty-four paintings by Johannes Vermeer survive in the entire world. Of these, five are at The Met, more than at any other museum.
Where are Vermeer paintings in NYC?
The Frick Collection in New York, USA holds three of Vermeer’s paintings including Officer and a Laughing Girl (1655–60), Girl Interrupted at Her Music (1660–61), and Mistress and Maid (1666–67). Henry Clay Frick purchased the pictures between 1901 and 1919 and are great examples of Vermeer’s genre scenes.
What was the maid in the painting The Milkmaid intended to do to males?
And yet, like milkmaids and kitchen maids in earlier Netherlandish art, and like other young women in Vermeer’s oeuvre, his kitchen maid was meant to encourage the male viewer’s amorous musings, and to have her own thoughts of romance. To the lower right is a Delft tile depicting Cupid brandishing his bow.
Who was The Milkmaid painted for?
Johannes VermeerThe Milkmaid / Artist
How many Vermeer paintings are there in New York?
Of the 36 paintings of Vermeer that exist, five of these are at the The Metropolitan Museum in New York, more than any other museum.
