Jump to content

Talk:Officer and Laughing Girl

Page contents not supported in other languages.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not a Pennsylvania article

[edit]

The Frick Collection is in New York City, housed in Henry Clay Frick's mansion, and Henry Clay Frick is indeed an important figure in Pennsylvania history, but does that make a Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer painting article in a Manhattan museum into an article deserving a Pennsylvania template? Not to me, and I hope other editors will agree. --DThomsen8 (talk) 21:05, 18 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

[edit]

Hello! This is to let editors know that File:Johannes Vermeer_-_De_Soldaat_en_het_Lachende_Meisje_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg, a featured picture used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for July 29, 2023. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2023-07-29. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page. If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you!  — Amakuru (talk) 23:32, 23 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Officer and Laughing Girl

Officer and Laughing Girl is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, produced around 1657. Created during the Dutch Golden Age, the painting has dimensions of 50.5 by 46.0 centimetres (19.9 in × 18.1 in). The main subject is a woman in a yellow dress, light is coming from the left-hand side of the painting from an open window, and there is a large map on the wall. Each of these elements occur in some of his other paintings, although this painting differs slightly with the man also sitting at the table. Art historians, who have suggested conflicting interpretations of the work, believe that a painting by Gerard van Honthorst inspired the composition and that Vermeer used a camera obscura to create the perspective. The work is now part of the Frick Collection in New York.

Painting credit: Johannes Vermeer

Recently featured: