Johannes Vermeer · c.1656–57

A Maid Asleep

Name: A Maid Asleep by Johannes Vermeer
Brand: Chromora
SKU: vermeer-a-maid-asleep
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A young woman dozes at a table covered with a Turkish carpet, a bowl of fruit and a white wine jug before her, a half-open door behind her showing the next room. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Up to 16 × 18.4 in · portrait

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

About this painting

The story of A Maid Asleep

This is probably Vermeer's first painting of a figure in a domestic interior. X-rays show that he first painted a man in the doorway and a dog looking at him, then painted both out, leaving the sleeper alone. The picture was in the 1696 Amsterdam sale of Vermeer's paintings, described as a drunken sleeping maid at a table. It came to the Metropolitan Museum with the Benjamin Altman bequest in 1913.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the artist

Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. He produced relatively few paintings, primarily earning his living as an art dealer. He was not wealthy; at his death, his wife was left in debt.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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