Johannes Vermeer
37 pieces 6 collections Delft, Dutch Republic
A Delft painter who made very few pictures, about three dozen survive, and took his time over each one. He painted quiet rooms where daylight from a left-hand window falls on someone reading, writing, pouring milk or playing music, and two views of his own town. He died in debt at 43, and was almost forgotten until the nineteenth century rediscovered him. Every piece here is in the public domain, from museums that share their collections openly, among them the Rijksmuseum, the Mauritshuis, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Gallery of Art.
