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Johannes Vermeer
The Girl with the Red Hat
Oil on panel
9 7/8 inches x 7 1/8 inches
The Girl with the Red Hat is of a young woman. She wears a red, feathery hat on top of her head. On her ears, she wears glass earrings that glisten from the light shining on her. She wears a blue velvet coat that has a sheen from the shining light. She sits in a wooden chair that has been carved into lion shapes that are hard to see. Behind her hangs a tapestry whose subject cannot be told because she sits in front of it.

Vermeer does not have many paintings that are known today, but those that we do know are widely known. The painting in this exhibit known as Young Woman Seated at a Virginal is one painting that is suspected to be one of his very few. With many of his paintings he uses camera obscura which is what he has been thought of as using for this painting.

Rachel Vining