The Milkmaid
Johannes Vermeer · 1660
The story
The Milkmaid, sometimes called The Kitchen Maid, is an oil-on-canvas painting of a "milkmaid", in fact, a domestic kitchen maid, by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer. It is in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which regards it as "unquestionably one of the museum's finest attractions".
- Artist
- Johannes Vermeer
- Date
- 1660
- Collection
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Movement
- Dutch Golden Age painting
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 45.5 × 41 cm
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