Key facts
- Artist
- Johannes Vermeer
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Movement
- Dutch Golden Age painting
- Dimensions
- 51 cm × 45 cm (20 in × 18 in)
- Location
- Musée du Louvre , Paris
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- painting
- Genre
- genre art
- Depicts
- compass
- Movement
- Baroque
- Material used
- canvas
- Creator
- Johannes Vermeer
- Collection
- Munich Central Collecting Point
- Image
- Johannes Vermeer - The Astronomer - 1668.jpg
- Height
- 50.8
- Width
- 46.3
- Significant event
- auction
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- inception
- 1664-00-00
- Commons category
- The Astronomer by Johannes Vermeer
- inventory number
- RF 1983 28
- catalog code
- 6
- pendant of
- The Geographer
- time period
- Dutch Golden Age painting
- copyright status
- public domain
- title
- The Astronomer
- depicts Iconclass notation
- 61B(+53)
- thickness
- 6.7
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Encyclopedic overview
The Astronomer (Dutch: De astronoom) is a painting finished in 1668 by the Johannes Vermeer, a painter of the Dutch Golden Age. It is in oil on canvas with dimensions 51 cm × 45 cm (20 in × 18 in). The Astronomer is now in the collection of the Louvre in Paris.
Description
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Astronomer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.