The lace maker (Vermeer)
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| The lace maker |
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| Jan Vermeer , 1669-1670 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 24.5 x 21 cm |
| Louvre |
The lace maker is an oil painting by Jan Vermeer between 1669 and 1670. The picture, which is 24.5 centimeters high and 21 centimeters wide, the smallest of Vermeer's pictures, shows a woman working on a bobbin lace . The picture is signed but not dated. Today it hangs in the collection of the Musée du Louvre in Paris .
Image description
In the center of the picture is a young girl sitting at a small work table that is pushed close to an empty wall. She is wearing a light yellow dress with a large white lace collar , in her left hand she is holding two clappers , with the other she carefully pricks a needle into the flat pillow on which she is working on the lace. On a small wooden box next to her right hand there is a small pile of bobbin needles, the silk thread is kept in a pillow-like container from which white and red threads flow smoothly.
The young woman's hair is extraordinarily complex. The brown hair is parted both over the forehead and across the head. The hair is combed back tightly to the back of the head and is braided into a braid that wraps tightly around the back of the head. Strands of curls curl up on both sides of the temples, which are artfully loosened from the strict hairstyle. The hairstyle and clothing, as well as the processing of expensive silk thread, suggest that the young woman is a daughter from a middle-class family and not a maid.
history
The painting was probably in the possession of Vermeer's patron Pieter Claesz von Ruijven before 1674, and was then in the possession of his heirs Magdalena van Ruijven and Jacob Dissius from 1681 to 1682. In 1696 it was auctioned in Amsterdam by the Dissius heirs for 28 guilders. After several other auctions, at which the prices rose only slightly, it achieved 3150 guilders (6000 francs) at an auction on April 1, 1870. In the same year it went to the Louvre for 7900 francs, where it is still kept today.
reception
Between 1954 and 1957, Dali worked with Robert Descharnes on a film - which remained unfinished - in the course of which Vermeer's painting exploded. In 1957 the film, entitled The Unusual Story of the Lace Maker and the Rhinoceros, was shown in the cinema.
literature
- Norbert Schneider: Vermeer all paintings . Taschen, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-8228-6377-7 .
- Arthur K. Wheelock: Vermeer . DuMont literature and art publishing house, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-8321-7339-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johannes Vermeer. Exhibition catalog Washington, Den Haag, Zwolle 1996, p. 176.
- ↑ Information at die-galerie.com, accessed on April 6, 2018