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DiaporamaYoung Woman with a Pearl Necklace
1662
56.0 x 47.0 cm
johannes vermeer van delft (1632 – 1675)
Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675): Dutch Master of light & intimate scenes. Explore 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' & iconic Golden Age paintings. Realism, domestic life.
A young woman is standing by a table and looking into a mirror to arrange her pearl necklace. Light floods into the room through the leaded window. The yellow of the curtain and the furtrimmed jacket, and also the bare, white wall—a masterpiece of pure painting in the fine nuances of its colouring— create an intense sense of colour that is additionally enhanced by the dark, blueblack foreground. Vermeer is one of the most famous Dutch artists, despite the fact that his oeuvre consists of only about thirty-five paintings. He used perspective as an important compositional and expressive device. Here the vanishing-point is just above the table-top, and thus below the subject
About this artwork
- Title: Young Woman with a Pearl Necklace
- Artist: johannes vermeer van delft
- Year: 1662
- Original dimensions: 56.0 x 47.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Copyright status: Public domain
- Color hue: Ochre to Sepia
- Color intensity: Monochromatic
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