Johannes Vermeer
The Geographer
166951.6 x 45.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed on cabinet: IVMeer (IVM in monogram)
Upper right: I.Ver Meer/MDCLXVIIII
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 5
Walter Liedtke, Vermeer, New York, 2008, nr. 27
Roelofs/Weber 30
Collection catalogues
Mirjam Neumeister, Holländische Gemälde im Städel 1550-1800, Petersberg, 2010, pp. 471-490
Literature
Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 73
Madlyn Millner Kahr, Dutch painting in the seventeenth century, New York, NY, 1993, fig. 216
Walter Liedtke with Michiel C. Plomp and Axel Rüger, Vermeer and the Delft School, New Haven and London, 2001, figs. 112, 174
Stephan Koja, Uta Neidhardt, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Dresden, 2021, p. 183, fig. 21
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 388
Exhibitions
2021 Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Nr. 10
2017 Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry, Nr. 66
2014 Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age, Nr. 134
1995 Johannes Vermeer, Nr. 16
Other works by Johannes Vermeer
Woman with a Lute
c. 1662-63
c. 1662-63
Mistress and Maid
c. 1666-67
c. 1666-67
The Letter Reader
c. 1657
c. 1657
Young Woman Interrupted at Music
c. 1658-59
c. 1658-59
Lady writing a letter with her maid
c. 1670
c. 1670