Vermeer's Clients
Cornelezoon de Helt "painting in a black frame"
The Music Lesson (detail)
Johannes Vermeer
The Concert (detail)
Johannes Vermeer
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VERMEER'S PAINTING
- COMPLETE VERMEER CATALOGUE
- Vermeer's paintings in scale
- museum locations of Vermeer's paintings
- geographical distribution of Vermeer's work
- Vermeer's signatures
- Vermeer paintings in their frames
- the Baron Rolin Woman at a Virginal
- Vermeer's clients and patrons
- missing Vermeer's
- Saint Praxedis: missing the mark
- the Dissius auction
- eyewitness accounts of Vermeer's paintings
- Vermeer's lost self-portrait
- erroneous attributions and fakes
- the Procuress: evidence for a Vermeer self-portrait
VERMEER'S PAINTING TECHNIQUE
- Vermeer's palette
- details of Vermeer's painting technique
- Vermeer and the camera obscura
- Virtual reconstruction of woman with a water pitcher
TIMELINES
MUSIC IN VERMEER'S TIME
VERMEER'S LIFE
- Vermeer's life
- chronology of Vermeer's life
- Johannes and Catharina
- Vermeer the man
- Vermeer's children
TIMELINES
DELFT & DUTCH PAINTING
- the school of delft
- the saint luke's guild of delft
- dutch master gallery
- the golden age of dutch painting
- economics in dutch 17th-c. painting
- rembrandt (an E.V.sister site)
DELFT
VERMEER EVENTS
DUTCH PRONUNCIATION (MP3)
E.V. INTERVIEWS
EXTERNAL SOURCES
PRINTS AND POSTERS
BOOKSHOPS
- Vermeer related books
- dutch art
- old master painting technique
- videos, novels & poetry inspired by Vermeer
- Vermeer's painting technique
MUSEUMS
RESEARCH
- in-depth bibliography
- Johannes Vermeer bookshop
- glossary of art terms
- dating of Vermeer's paintings
- map of current painting locations
- museum websites with Vermeer's paintings
- online dutch art resources
MISC.
- proust and Vermeer:"petit pan de mur jaune."
- the han van meegeren case
- brush with fate: a behind the scenes view girl in hyacinth blue
- lace and lacemaking in vermeer's time
- Constantijn Huygens
VERMEER VIDEOS
copyright@ 2001-2009 Jonathan Janson
Nothing can be deduced from the meager description of the "painting in a black frame" by Vermeer. Vermeer, as many other Dutch painters, probably used similar the black (ebony) frames that are seen hanging on the back walls in his own paintings. These frames were also used for mirrors. Dutch frame-makers were known for their ability to imitate costly exotic woods.