The Lacemaker
Johannes Vermeer · 1669
Why it's great
A young woman bends her head over her tiny lace work, with threads falling from a sewing cushion, in a small canvas. Johannes Vermeer painted it in about 1669, and the red and white threads are blurred in the front while the work is sharp.
Where to see it
📍 Louvre MuseumParis, France
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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.
