Vermeer

Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer baptized in Delft on 31 October 1632 as Joannis, and buried in the same city under the name Jan on 15 December 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.

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Ever since I have read the Frank McDonald novel Provenance, I have been obsessing to own an Old Master. The featured painting was a Vermeer, though named differently in the book I was pretty sure it was the above picture.