author
Vermeer
Year 1665
The original dimensions are 46.5 x 40
Original material oil paint. canvas
This is a mysterious work, the thick black in the background of the painting, and the appearance of a bright female lonely figure, like Vermeer's painting, this is the only one that exists in his works. This painting, like most of his portraits, does not recognize who it is. Vermeer was a painter who was completely different from Limbrant, with a long, fluid brushwork and much more delicate brushwork. The shape of the girl's head is thick and powerful, especially in the drawing method, which also uses the effect of chiaroscuro, which is quite characteristic of Limbrand's handwriting.
In the final analysis, this point comes from caravaggio, the great reformer of painting art, and caravaggio's legacy can undoubtedly be seen in Vermeer's earliest works. The light in the painting is concentrated on the girl's turquoise scarf and face, which can be seen in the brush strokes of all the painters who have been influenced by Caravaggio, including the three heroes of the seventeenth century: Limbrant, Vilasquez and Rubens. Vermeer vividly outlined the delicate face of the girl, the wetness of her lips, the thin line that extended from the collar to the neck, and the eyes of the water spirit. Her bright gaze implies eagerness, and she bluntly summons the viewer outside the painting, and some people will think of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa", but in the painting here, there is no mystery in the Renaissance masterpiece.
