Johannes Vermeer

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The Lacemaker is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632 to 1675), completed around 1669 to 1670 and held in the Louvre, Paris. The work shows a young woman wearing a yellow bodice, holding up a pair of bobbins in her left hand as she carefully places a pin in the pillow on which she is making her bobbin lace. At 24.5 cm × 21 cm (9.6 in × 8.3 in), the work is the smallest of Vermeer's paintings, seen by one author as one of his most abstract and unusual.

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Lady Standing at a Virginal is a genre painting created by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer in about 1670 to 1672, now in the National Gallery, London. The oil painting depicts a richly dressed woman playing a virginal in a home with a tiled floor, paintings on the wall and some of the locally manufactured Delftware blue and white tiles of a type that appear in other Vermeer works. The identities of the paintings on the wall are not certain, according to the National Gallery, but the landscape on the left may be by either Jan Wijnants or Allart van Everdingen.

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Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, completed in 1670 to 1671 and held in the National Gallery of Ireland, in Dublin, Ireland. The painting shows a standing woman seemingly acting as a messenger between the seated younger lady and her unseen lover. It was famously stolen on 27 April 1974 during a raid on Russborough House, Ireland, and again in 1986 by a gang led by the Dublin crime boss Martin Cahill, although in both cases it was recovered.

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The Little Street (Het Straatje) is a painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, executed c. It is exhibited at the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, and signed, below the window in the lower left-hand corner, "I V MEER". The painting is made in oil on canvas, and it is a relatively small painting, being 54.3 centimetres (21.4 in) high by 44.0 centimetres (17.3 in) wide.

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Woman Reading a Letter is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, produced around 1663. It has been part of the collection of the City of Amsterdam since the Van der Hoop bequest in 1854, and in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam since it opened in 1885, the first Vermeer it acquired. The central element of the painting is a woman in blue standing in front of a window (not depicted) reading a letter.

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The Art of Painting, also known as The Allegory of Painting, or Painter in his Studio, is a 17th-century oil on canvas painting by Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer. It is owned by the Austrian Republic and is on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Many art historians think that it is an allegory of painting, hence the alternative title of the painting.

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The Astronomer is an oil-on-canvas painting completed in 1668 by Johannes Vermeer, a painter of the Dutch Golden Age. Measuring 51 cm × 45 cm (20 in × 18 in), The Astronomer is now in the collection of the Louvre in Paris. Portrayals of scientists were a favourite topic in 17th-century Dutch painting and Vermeer's oeuvre includes both this astronomer and the slightly later The Geographer.

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Lady Seated at a Virginal, also known as Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, is a genre painting created by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer in about 1670 to 1672 and now in the National Gallery, London. Another painting, probably also by Johannes Vermeer and known as A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals, also shows a young woman seated at a virginal. That painting and the Lady Seated at a Virginal are quite separate works.