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June 28, 2023

Mid-Morning Art Thread

A Maid Asleep
Johannes Vermeer

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art's description. It's actually interesting!

The misbehavior of unsupervised maidservants was a common subject for seventeenth-century Dutch painters. Yet in his depiction of a young maid dozing next to a glass of wine, Vermeer transfigured an ordinary scene into an investigation of light, color, and texture that supersedes any moralizing lesson. While the toppled glass at left (now abraded with time) and rumpled table carpet may indicate a recently departed visitor, x-radiographs indicate that Vermeer chose to remove a male figure he had originally included standing in the doorway, heightening the painting's ambiguity.

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