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Painting (oil on oak panel) · Hans Holbein the Younger

The painting is an inventory in oil. On the table in front of the merchant: a folded letter, addressed to him ("To the honourable Georg Gisze in London, in England, to my brother"), a glass vase of ca

Painting (oil on canvas) · Johannes Vermeer

Vermeer painted only about thirty-five works in his entire career. Two of them, painted around 1668 and 1669, depict male scholars: The Astronomer (now at the Louvre) and The Geographer (now at the St