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| The Lacemaker |
The work shows a young woman wearing a dress holding up two bobins while she places a pin in the pillow on which she is making a her bobbin lace. At 24.5 cm x 21 cm, this work is the smallest and one of the most abstract and unusual works. The girl is between a white wall because the artist wanted to eliminate the rest of distractions from the center drawing. A lot of specialists says that the lacemaker would be somebody from his family, maybe one of his olders daughters. Another of the laters additions were the curly hair of the girl and one of the most important elements, the yellow of her jacket.
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| The Lacemaker exposed in the Louvre (Paris) |
She is sitting in a piece of forniture which was used to the lace making and his tapestry seems to have something in common to the one which appears in Vermeer’s Love Letter and Astronomer. We can observe in the picture bellow that the table could be raised and lowered by inserting a peg in the differents holes that are in the dark part of the table leg.
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Silvia Leal Gómez 4ºA "The Lacemaker".
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The Lacemaker is one of the most famous paintings made by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer and signed as IVMeer. It was finished around 1669-1670 and it’s currently exhibited in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
The work shows a young woman wearing a dress holding up two bobbins while she places a pin in the pillow on which she is making a (her bobbin) lace. At 24.5 cm x 21 cm, this work is the smallest and one of his most abstract and unusual works. The girl is before a white wall because the artist wanted to eliminate the rest of distractions from the central figure. A lot of specialists say(s) that the lacemaker would be somebody from his family, maybe one of his older(s) daughters. Other of the latter additions was the curly hair of the girl and one of the most important elements, the yellow of her jacket.
We can’t see the kind of lace the girl is making, but we can see the tools that the girl is using so we can imagine it as Vermeer wanted to show. We can also see that the girl is resting her hands in a kind of pillow which is used to make shorter pieces. The Little book that is next to her is supposed to be a kind of religious book like a Bible. Probably the Bible wanted to symbolize a domestic virtue, very important in the Dutch life.
She is sitting in a piece of furniture which was used for the lace making and her tapestry seems to have something in common to the one which appears in Vermeer’s Girl Reading a Letter and The Astronomer. We can observe in the picture bellow that the table could be raised and lowered by inserting a peg in the different(s) holes that are in the dark part of the table leg.
Here, we can observe the signature of the painting and itss transcription because it's almost removed of the canvas.
I hope you all like my project! Leave your opinion and what (do) you think about the painting and my project about it!
You should have commented on the Baroque features of this painting and especially Baroque in the Low Countries: scenes of ordinary life, bourgeois taste... Your mark is 7. Bye.
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