Officer and Laughing Girl

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Officer and Laughing Girl is a 17th-century genre painting by Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer depicting an intimate, light-filled interior scene of a soldier conversing with a smiling young woman.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf genre painting
painting
artHistoricalPeriod Baroque
artist Johannes Vermeer
artworkSurface canvas
collection The Frick Collection
colorPalette cool blues
warm yellows
countryOfOrigin Dutch Republic
creator Johannes Vermeer
dateOfCreation c. 1657–1660
depicts chair
conversation
domestic interior
map on the wall
soldier
sunlight
table
window
wine glass
young woman
genre interior scene
hasDutchTitle Officier en lachend meisje
height 50.5 cm
inception circa 1657
languageOfTitle English
locatedIn New York City
United States
location The Frick Collection
mainSubject laughing girl
officer
materialUsed oil paint
medium oil on canvas
movement Dutch Golden Age painting
orientation portrait format
originalLanguageOfTitle Dutch
partOf Johannes Vermeer oeuvre
setInPeriod 17th century
setInPlace Dutch interior
style chiaroscuro lighting
realism
theme courtship
domestic life
social interaction
usesComposition foreground figure in silhouette
usesLightSource window at left
usesPerspective linear perspective
width 46 cm

Referenced by (2)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Officer and Laughing Girl ("Officier en lachend meisje")
hasDutchTitle
Johannes Vermeer
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