Officer and Laughing Girl
Johannes Vermeer · 1658
Why it's great
A soldier in a big hat sits with his back to us, talking with a laughing young woman holding a glass, and a map is on the wall behind. Johannes Vermeer painted it in about 1658, and the bright light from the window falls on her.
Where to see it
📍 The Frick CollectionManhattan, United States
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Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter born in Delft in 1632. He painted calm scenes of women in sunlit rooms, with pearls, maps, letters and music, and made fewer than 40 paintings that we know of. He died in 1675, and he was almost forgotten until the 1800s.
