Mistress and Maid

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Artist : Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675)

Title : Mistress and Maid

Object type: painting

Genre : genre art

Year : circa 1666-1667

Medium : oil on canvas

Dimensions : Height: 90.2 cm (35.5 in); Width: 78.4 cm (30.8 in)

Location: West Gallery

Mistress and Maid was created in1666–1667. The painting exhibits an elegant mistress and her maid as they look over a love letter that the mistress just received. There is a strong use of yellow in the woman's elegant fur-lined overcoat, and blue in the silk tablecloth and the maid's apron. The focus of the painting is the two women as they are sitting at a desk, performing an everyday activity. Vermeer was known for his domestic scenes have women.

The light in the painting comes from the left side and falls over on the mistress' face. The mistress has a pensive gaze, with her lips separate slightly and her fingertips lifted to her chin in a questioning manner. The lighted parts of the yellow overcoat are formed with sweeping brushstrokes of lead-tin-yellow and the shadows are painted with definition. Vermeer uses a dark background, as he does in other paintings such as Portrait of a Young Woman and Girl with a Pearl Earring. Pearls were an important status symbol of the period and that was seen in the mistress' fancy attire and her abundance of pearls.

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