2. Artist: Johannes Vermeer Year: c. 1670–71 Type: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 72.2 cm × 59.5 cm (28.4 in × 23.4 in) Location: National Gallery of Ireland
3. Themaid Messenger forthe lady and thelover. Innerrestless and boredom. Similar to Gabriel Metsu’spainting.
4. The Lady Inspiration from the Lacemaker. The patch of bright white wall contrasts her right hand silhouette.
5. Thefloor Suggests a quality of bourgeois life. It is an ideal as the Dutch preferred floor made of wood.
9. Thewindow The leadings of the window seem to be identical in design with the ones in the Music Lesson but in this picture the central design has been colored.
10. Thepainting It is a Finding of Moses. It follows the same technique of pictures within-a-picture. The same Moses appears in the Astronomer.
11. This painting has been stolen two times in the last twenty-five years. In 1974 by the IRA. It was recovered a week later. In 1986 by a gang led by the Dublin organized crime gang leader Martin Cahill. Only after more than seven years of secret negotiations and international detective work was the painting recovered. As a curiosity…
