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Monday, February 27, 2012

026-Collection des animaux quadrupèdes 1754- Georges-Louis LeclercBuffon- University of Strasbourg - Digital old books

027-Collection des animaux quadrupèdes 1754- Georges-Louis LeclercBuffon- University of Strasbourg - Digital old books

Johannes Vermeer

Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (632 – 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in exquisite, domestic interior scenes of middle class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.
Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours and sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue and yellow. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.
Vermeer painted mostly domestic interior scenes. As Koning points out: "Almost all his paintings 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".