The Milkmaid
Vermeer, Johannes
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Alternative Title
Het melkmeisje
Date
1660Description
Overall view with frame; A maidservant pours milk, entirely absorbed in her work. Except for the stream of milk, everything else is still. Vermeer took this simple everyday activity and made it the subject of an impressive painting; the woman stands like a statue in the brightly lit room. Vermeer also had an eye for how light plays over the surface of objects by means of hundreds of colorful dots. Source: Rijksmuseum [website]; www.rijksmuseum.nl/en (accessed 6/22/2015)
Type of Work
painting (visual work)Subject
genre, interiors, food, window, Seventeenth century
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