The Geographer
1669 · oil on canvas
Dimensions (46.6 x 53 cm)
Collection: Art Whisperer
The Geographer is now in the collection of the Städelsches Kunstinstitut museum in Frankfurt, Germany. It is closely related to Vermeer's The Astronomer, for instance using the same model in the same dress, and has sometimes been considered a pendant painting to it. A 2017 study indicated that the canvas for the two works came from the same bolt of material.
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About this artwork
The Geographer (1669) by Johannes Vermeer, oil on canvas, from the Art Whisperer collection.
About Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer (October 1632 – December 1675), in original Dutch Jan Vermeer van Delft, was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague.
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