The Milkmaid
Sign in to saveAlso known as The Yellow Kitchen Maid, The Kitchen Maid, Yellow Milkmaid, The Milk Maid, Het melkmeisje, Milkmaid
painting by Johannes Vermeer
Key facts
- Artist
- Johannes Vermeer
- Year
- c. 1657 –1658 (though estimates differ)
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Movement
- Baroque , Dutch Golden Age
- Dimensions
- H 45.5 cm × W 41 cm ( 17 + 7 ⁄ 8 in × 16 + 1 ⁄ 8 in)
- Location
- Rijksmuseum , Amsterdam
via Wikipedia infobox
Described at
Het melkmeisje - Rijksmuseum
Geheel verdiept in haar werk schenkt een dienstmeisje melk in. Behalve de witte melkstraal lijkt niets te bewegen. Die alledaagse handeling balde Vermeer samen tot een indrukwekkend schilderij – als een beeld staat de figuur vrij in de lichte ruimte. Vermeer had oog voor hoe het licht in honderden kleurige puntjes over de voorwerpen speelt.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- painting
- Country
- Netherlands
- Owned by
- Rijksmuseum
- Genre
- genre art
- Country of origin
- Netherlands
- Depicts
- maid
- Movement
- Dutch Golden Age painting
- Material used
- oil paint
- Creator
- Johannes Vermeer
- Collection
- Rijksmuseum
- Image
- Johannes Vermeer - Het melkmeisje - Google Art Project.jpg
- Height
- 45.5
- Width
- 41
- Significant event
- sales
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- depicts Iconclass notation
- 41C211
- catalog code
- 43
- described at URL
- www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/SK-A-2344
- Commons category
- The Milkmaid by Johannes Vermeer
- inception
- 1660-00-00
- inventory number
- SK-A-2344
- commissioned by
- Pieter van Ruijven
- location of creation
- Delft
- title
- ساقية الحليب
- copyright status
- public domain
- time period
- Baroque
Sources (12)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Milkmaid (Dutch: De melkmeid or Het melkmeisje), sometimes called The Kitchen Maid (Dutch: De keukenmeid), is an oil-on-canvas painting of a "milkmaid", in fact, a domestic kitchen maid, by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. It is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which regards it as "unquestionably one of the museum's finest attractions".
The exact year of the painting's completion is unknown, with estimates varying by source. The Rijksmuseum estimates it as circa 1658. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, it was painted in about 1657 or 1658. The "Essential Vermeer" website gives a broader range of 1658–1661.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Milkmaid” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.