The Girl with the Wine Glass explained

The Girl with the Wine Glass (Dame en twee heren) is an oil-on-canvas painting of the Dutch Golden Age by Johannes Vermeer, created c. 1659–1660, now in the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, in Braunschweig.

Painting materials

The pigment analysis done by Hermann Kühn^[1] shows Vermeer's use of the expensive natural ultramarine in the tablecloth, lead-tin-yellow in the oranges on the table and madder lake and vermilion in the skirt of the woman.^[2]

See also

• List of paintings by Johannes Vermeer

Further reading

• Book: Marjorie E. . Wieseman . Wayne . Franits . H. Perry . Chapman . Vermeer's Women: Secrets and Silence . Yale University Press . 2011.

External links

• Web site: Johannes Vermeer, The Girl with a Wineglass . ColourLex.
• Web site: Janson . Johnathan . The Girl with a Wineglass . Essential Vermeer.

Notes and References

1. Kühn . Hermann . A Study of the Pigments and Grounds Used by Jan Vermeer . Reports and Studies in the History of Art . National Gallery of Art . Washington DC . 1968 . 2 . 154–202 . 42618099.
2. Web site: Johannes Vermeer, The Girl with a Wineglass . ColourLex.