The Glass of Wine (Lady Drinking and a Gentleman), c.1658/60 Johannes Vermeer, van Delft (1632-1675)

Location: Gemaldegalerie Berlin Germany
Original Size: 67.7 x 79.6 cm
The Glass of Wine (Lady Drinking and a Gentleman), c.1658/60 | Vermeer

Oil Painting Reproduction

$2498 USD
Condition:Unframed
SKU:VVD-1095
Painting Size:26.7 x 31.3 in

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Completely Hand Painted
Painted by European Аrtists with Academic Education
Museum Quality
+ 4 cm (1.6") Margins for Stretching
Creation Time: 8-9 Weeks
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Cool daylight floods the modest Delft interior, glancing off chequered terracotta-and-slate tiles to alight on a young woman in a rose-madder gown. She sits poised at a walnut table whose Anatolian carpet cascades velvety vermilion and indigo folds. Lifting a roemer to her lips, she turns fractionally away from the cavalier who hovers, jug in hand, beneath the blank, dark gilt frame on the back wall. Music lies dormant beside them—a cittern abandoned on a chair, sheets of notation half-hidden—an eloquent hint at conviviality recently stilled.

Vermeer’s palette is restrained yet dazzling in effect. Muted blue-greys temper the saturated reds and ochres, while milky lead-white strokes along the woman’s cap and glass catch the eye like discreet flashes of jewellery. The painter orchestrates zones of warm and cool: the window’s jewelled heraldic glass emits a chilly prism of colour, counterweighted by the burnished warmth of the rug and carved chairs. Such tonal modulation suspends the scene between intimacy and reserve, inviting the viewer to feel the air’s quiet chill even as wine promises heat.

Closer scrutiny reveals a technique of extraordinary finesse. Thin, translucent glazes allow underlayers to pulse gently through the surface, endowing objects with palpable density. Minute, near-invisible stipples of light—those famously sparing pointillés—breathe across pewter, faïence, and fabric, granting each substance its own timbre. Yet bravura is never flaunted; even the lavish carpet is rendered with disciplined breadth, its arabesques subordinated to the measured fall of daylight.

Spatially, the composition is an exercise in calibrated distance. The empty chair in the foreground becomes our surrogate, interposing polite space between observer and dramatis personae. Orthogonals in the tiled floor converge at a vanishing point just beyond the jug, silently directing the gaze toward the moment of impending refill. Vertical bands—the window, the picture frame, the cavalier’s cloak—anchor the geometry, while the woman’s lifted arm describes a gentle arc that prevents the tableau from freezing into stillness.

Moral resonance is embedded with equal subtlety. The stained-glass emblem of Temperance, straps and square in hand, issues mute counsel: measure your appetites. In the mid-1650s, such genre scenes navigated the porous border between instruction and amusement; Vermeer, perhaps spurred by Ter Borch’s worldly narratives and Pieter de Hooch’s architectural calm, pares away overt impropriety. No touching hand, no loosened bodice—only the prospect of it, suspended like the untouched wine.

Thus the painting resolves into a poised uncertainty. Light clarifies every surface yet withholds the story’s conclusion, encouraging the viewer to decipher glints, gestures, and gaps. Vermeer transforms a quotidian encounter into an arena of disciplined looking, where pleasure and restraint, music and silence, come to rest in luminous equipoise.
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