THE GIRL WITH A WINE GLASS
(Dame en twee heren)
c.1659-1660
oil on canvas
30 3/4 x 26 3/8 in. (78 x 67 cm.)
Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Brunswick
"Time, halted for this instant and therefore in a sense for eternity, seems to be his essential subject. Its wear and tear is visible in the bricks and mortar, the fabric of fact that bluntly underpins our tenuous and temporary hold with its many unanswerable questions, such as 'What are we doing here?' And yet according to some art historians the picture is also about the ideals of domestic virtue: the grape-vine symbolizes love
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used for this interactive study:- BLANKERT, Albert, "Vermeer's Modern Themes and their Traditions," in Johannes Vermeer, Yale University Press, ed. Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., New Haven &London, 1995
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