Johannes Vermeer · c.1657

Officer and Laughing Girl

Name: Officer and Laughing Girl by Johannes Vermeer
Brand: Chromora
SKU: vermeer-officer-and-laughing-girl
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A soldier in a red coat and a wide black hat sits with his back to us across the table from a smiling girl holding a glass, a large map of Holland on the wall and sunlight coming through the open window. The Frick Collection, New York.

Up to 16 × 17.4 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 Officer and Laughing Girl

Painted around 1657, this is among the first interiors in which Vermeer set figures in a corner of a room lit from a window on the left. The officer, large and dark in the foreground, makes the girl look small and bright by contrast. The wall map of Holland and West Friesland, drawn with west at the top, returns in later paintings. Henry Clay Frick bought the picture in 1911.

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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