Vermeer, Jan - Little Street in Delft - Medici art postcard c.1950s

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: Little Street in Delft [or just Little Street]
• Artist (if known): Jan Vermeer
• Media or other details:  painting
• Publisher / Gallery: Medici Society Ltd / Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
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Stock No.: A529

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer (/v?r'm??r/;^[3] Dutch: [jo?'??n?s j?n v?r'me?r]; 1632 – December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, perhaps because he produced relatively few paintings.^[4]

Vermeer worked slowly and with great care, using bright colours and sometimes expensive pigments, with a preference for lapis lazuli and Indian yellow. He is particularly renowned for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.^[5]

Vermeer painted mostly domestic interior scenes. ""Almost all his paintings are apparently set in two smallish rooms in his house in Delft; they show the same furniture and decorations in various arrangements and they often portray the same people, mostly women.""^[6]

Recognized during his lifetime in Delft and The Hague, his modest celebrity gave way to obscurity after his death; he was barely mentioned in Arnold Houbraken's major source book on 17th-century Dutch painting (Grand Theatre of Dutch Painters and Women Artists), and was thus omitted from subsequent surveys of Dutch art for nearly two centuries.^[7][8] In the 19th century, Vermeer was rediscovered by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Théophile Thoré-Bürger, who published an essay attributing sixty-six pictures to him, although only thirty-four paintings are universally attributed to him today.^[2] Since that time, Vermeer's reputation has grown, and he is now acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age.

The Little Street (Het Straatje) is a painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, executed c. 1657–58. It is exhibited at the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, and signed on the left hand corner below the window ""I V MEER"".^[1][2]

The painting is made in oil on canvas, and it is a relatively small painting, of the size of 54.3cm × w 44cm. This the only known painting made by Johannes Vermeer outdoors and the only one that is correctly attributed to Vermeer.^[3]

The painting showing a quiet street, depicting a typical aspect of the life in a Dutch Golden Age village. This painting is considered to be an important work of the Dutch master.^[4]

Straight angles alternate with the triangle of the house and of the sky giving the composition a certain vitality. The walls, stones and brickwork are painted in a thick colour, that it makes them almost palpable. The exact location of the scene Vermeer painted is not known, though, a study argued that it is the Voldersgracht or the Nieuwe Langendijk.^[5] At present The Vermeer Centre Delft is located here. (52.012222°N 4.359444°E).

type=printed postcards

theme=artists signed

sub-theme=art

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

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