The Astronomer, 1664

Johannes Vermeer

Oil on canvas · 50.8 x 46.3 cm

A scholar reaches toward a celestial globe in warm, private lamplight.

Bathed in window light, a scholar reaches for a celestial globe, mid-thought. Vermeer paints the quiet drama of knowledge itself — the tactile books, the glowing robe, the hush of a study — in one of his most intimate and precisely observed interiors.

Department of Paintings of the Louvre

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