Mistress and Maid by Johannes Vermeer

Description

This oil on canvas painting shows an elegant mistress and her maid as they look over a love letter that the mistress just received. The seventeenth-century Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer was known for his domestic scenes containing women. The subject of this painting is the two women as they sit at a desk, doing a prosaic everyday activity. This painting can seem very straightforward at first glance, but it has deeper psychological implications. The painting has many characteristic stylistic features such as the large scale of the figures, the dark background, and the dramatic modeling within the scene.”Mistress and Maid” was painted over the years 16661667 on canvas. The use of yellow and blue, female models, and domestic situations are all signatures of Vermeer.A prominent theme in paintings by Vermeer from around the late 1660s is letter writing. In earlier work by Johannes Vermeer there is one woman isolated with a letter, but in the painting “Mistress and Maid” there is a new element, an added maid. This gives the painting a sense of anxiety between the two women as they ponder the letter and its potential contents.1666-67/Holland

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