Vermeer's Paintings in Chronological Order

This page presents the paintings of Vermeer in chronological order, following the sequence established by the Essential Vermeer website. The DEFAULT view displays all works at a uniform heigth. Alternative options allow the paintings to be shown IN SCALE, reflecting their relative dimensions, or with their FRAMES. Paintings can be reordered by dragging and dropping, saved, and printed. Five custom orders can be saved. All custom saves are stored in the default mode.

Since only three Vermeer's works are dated by his own hand, the dates of each picture proposed in the Essential Vermeer catalogue covers the range of those estimated by four authoritative scholars of Dutch art and Vermeer: Albert Blankert (Vermeer: 1632–1675, 1975), Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (The Public and the Private in the Age of Vermeer, 2000), Walter Liedtke (Vermeer: The Complete Catalogue, 2008) and Wayne Franits (Vermeer, 2015). Catalogue numbers were calculated by averaging their total estimates.^{For a complete table of estimated dates, including those the recent 2023 Vermeer retrospective at the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum,click here.}