THE GEOGRAPHER

(De geograaf)

c.1668-1669
oil on canvas
20 7/8 x 18 1/4 in.  (53 x 46.6 cm.)
Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main

an interactive analysis *
scroll your cursor over the 12 hot areas areas of the painting, or the two special topics below.
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* a significant part of this study was derived from Arthur K. Wheelock's writings about this painting to be found Johannes Vermeer and The Public and the Private in the Age of Vermeer

another important resource is:
A. Welu, "Vermeer: His Cartographic Sources." Art Bulletin 57, 1975, pp. 529-547