The Procuress
Johannes Vermeer · 1656
Why it's great
A young man puts his arm around a woman while an old woman looks on, and a soldier laughs. Johannes Vermeer painted it in 1656, and he may be the smiling man on the left.
Where to see it
📍 Gemäldegalerie Alte MeisterDresden, Germany
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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.
