The Girl with the Wine Glass
Appearance
The Girl with the Wine Glass (A Lady and Two Gentlemen) | |
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Artist | Johannes Vermeer |
Year | c. 1659–1660 |
Medium | oil on canvas |
Location | Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
The Girl with the Wine Glass (Dame en twee heren) is an oil-on-canvas painting of the Dutch Golden Age by Johannes Vermeer, created c. 1659–1660, now in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, in Braunschweig.
Painting materials
[edit]The pigment analysis done by Hermann Kühn[1] shows Vermeer's use of the expensive natural ultramarine in the tablecloth, lead-tin-yellow in the oranges on the table and madder lake and vermilion in the skirt of the woman.[2]
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ Kühn, Hermann (1968). "A Study of the Pigments and Grounds Used by Jan Vermeer". Reports and Studies in the History of Art. 2. Washington DC: National Gallery of Art: 154–202. JSTOR 42618099.
- ^ "Johannes Vermeer, The Girl with a Wineglass". ColourLex.
Further reading
[edit]- Wieseman, Marjorie E.; Franits, Wayne; Chapman, H. Perry (2011). Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence. Yale University Press.
External links
[edit]- "Johannes Vermeer, The Girl with a Wineglass". ColourLex.
- Janson, Johnathan. "The Girl with a Wineglass". Essential Vermeer.