Johannes Vermeer
The Astronomer
166851.5 x 45.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed on cabinet: IVMeer/ MDCLXVIII (IVM in monogram)
Louvre, Paris
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 6
Walter Liedtke, Vermeer, New York, 2008, nr. 28
Roelofs/Weber 29
Literature
Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 72
Walter Liedtke with Michiel C. Plomp and Axel Rüger, Vermeer and the Delft School, New Haven and London, 2001, fig. 175
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, fig. 220
Stephan Koja, Uta Neidhardt, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Dresden, 2021, p. 118, fig. 20
Exhibitions
2017 Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry, Nr. 65
2015 Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Nr. 32
2014 Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age, Nr. 135
Other works by Johannes Vermeer
The Guitar Player
c. 1670-72
c. 1670-72
The Art of Painting
c. 1666/68
c. 1666/68
Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
c. 1663-64
c. 1663-64
Girl with a Pearl Earring
c. 1665-67
c. 1665-67
The Concert
c. 1663-66
c. 1663-66