Both a visual record and a scholarly reference, Vermeer: The Complete Works offers readers the closest possible encounter with Vermeer's paintings outside a museum and remains a foundational resource for the study of one of art history's most revered painters.
Published in conjunction with a landmark exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Vermeer: The Complete Works presents the full known painted oeuvre of Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) in an authoritative and accessible format.
This volume reproduces each of Vermeer's approximately thirty‑five accepted paintings in large, full‑page color plates, allowing close study of the artist's extraordinary control of light, space, and surface. From intimate domestic interiors to carefully staged moments of music‑making, letter‑writing, and contemplation, the works reveal how Vermeer transformed everyday scenes into images of enduring psychological and visual complexity.
Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., a leading Vermeer scholar and former curator of northern European paintings at the National Gallery of Art, provides concise, informed commentary on each work. The text situates Vermeer within the cultural and artistic world of the Dutch Golden Age while addressing questions of attribution, chronology, and technique.
