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Johannes Vermeer: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Jan Vermeer
Baptized October 31, 1632
Buried December 16, 1675
Notable Works “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window” ‱ “Girl with a Pearl Earring”

Photos

Johannes Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Oil painting by Johannes Vermeer showing a quiet street in Delft with red brick houses, open windows, and two women working near doorways.
Johannes Vermeer: Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman
Johannes Vermeer: Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
Johannes Vermeer: Woman Holding a Balance
Painting by Johannes Vermeer showing a woman in a white cap and blue apron pouring milk from a jug into a bowl, with bread and pottery on a table beside her.
Painting by Johannes Vermeer showing a young woman in a blue coat and large red hat, seated and looking toward the viewer, with a tapestry backdrop and soft light on her face.
Johannes Vermeer: Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer: Study of a Young Woman
A young woman in a yellow dress holds a cittern while seated, as a maidservant stands beside her handing her a letter, in an interior scene from Johannes Vermeer's The Love Letter.
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Hooch, Pieter de: Interior with Two Gentlemen and a Woman Beside a Fire
Pieter de Hooch
Dutch painter
Diego VelĂĄzquez
Diego VelĂĄzquez
Spanish painter
Honoré Daumier
Honoré Daumier
French artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
Peasant Dance by Pieter Bruegel the Elder shows villagers dancing, drinking, and socializing outdoors near rustic buildings, with musicians playing in the foreground.
Pieter Bruegel, the Elder
Flemish artist
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
Winslow Homer: Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer
American artist
Self-portrait by Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, pastel, 1775; in the Louvre, Paris.
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin
French painter
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo: Grape and Melon Eaters
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Spanish painter
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Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov
Russian artist
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Pavel Andreyevich Fedotov
Russian painter
Eeckhout, Gerbrand van den: Group Portrait
Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
Dutch painter and poet
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Quentin Massys
Flemish artist
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
Jacopo Bassano
Italian painter
George Caleb Bingham: Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
George Caleb Bingham
American painter
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Gerard Terborch
Dutch painter
“The World Upside-down,” oil painting by Jan Steen, 1663; in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Jan Steen
Dutch painter
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David Teniers, the Younger
Flemish painter
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Lilly Martin Spencer
American painter
Fabritius, Carel: Self-Portrait
Carel Fabritius
Dutch painter

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