In this painting, DeWitt notes, the artist even incorporates a witty visual suggestion about the beauty and value of her writing-a string of pearls sits right below where her words of love flow from her pen onto the paper. Sometimes the artist would paint separate canvases of separated lovers, the pair connected only by the letters they are shown composing and the exquisite cast of light for which Vermeer is renowned. Her charming approach indicates she is writing a love letter, a common subject of Vermeer’s letter-writing scenes, DeWitt says. “The nib of her quill pen is still on the paper.” “Adorned in the fashionable style of the day-hair ribbons, pear-drop pearl earrings, and a fur-trimmed jacket-she meets our gaze with a slight smile while writing a letter,” he says. “The beguiling expression of the young lady is the result of Vermeer’s meticulous care in composition and pose,” says Lloyd DeWitt, the Chrysler Museum’s Chief Curator and Irene Leache Curator of European Art. He worked mainly for a single patron who amassed at least 20 of his paintings, including the window-lit A Lady Writing. Unlike his contemporary Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) in nearby Amsterdam, Vermeer was little known or appreciated in his day. Vermeer experimented with the effects of light, mathematics, and optics to enhance the realism of his laborious works.
They are typically shown in his signature refined cast of light. Vermeer often depicted beautiful women working at everyday activities in their homes. This one, a 1962 memorial gift to the NGA from the children of the great New York art collector Horace Havemeyer, is among the most superb in any collection. The National Gallery of Art’s unusually rich collection is home to three works that scholars have firmly attributed to the great 17th-century Dutch master. Paintings by Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) are exceptionally rare-only 35 are known to exist and most of those are in major museum collections.
18, 2016, upstairs in Gallery 202 of the Museum’s Dalis Foundation Galleries. The jewel-like painting will be on view to the public from Tuesday, Nov. 1665, is generously being lent to the Chrysler by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., for a limited six-week engagement. (October 20, 2016) - The Chrysler Museum of Art offers visitors a rare opportunity to see-in person-one of the great masterworks of art by one of the world’s most admired, yet mysterious painters: Johannes Vermeer of Delft.Ī Lady Writing, ca.
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