Johannes Vermeer · c. 1657–58
The Milkmaid
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Vermeer's masterful interior — a single domestic worker pouring milk in a quiet Dutch kitchen, modeled with his signature softly illuminated stillness.
Up to 36 × 40.4 in · portrait
Size
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Milkmaid
A woman in a yellow bodice and a blue apron pours milk from a jug into a bowl on a table set with bread. Light comes from a window on the left and picks out every crumb and the nail holes in the wall. Vermeer painted it around 1657 to 1658, early in his career, and it is at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, where it is the painting people cross the building to find. Nothing happens in it. That is the point. The milk pours in a thin, unbroken thread, and the whole room seems to hold its breath.
On a wall, The Milkmaid is warm and bright. The dominant colors are the lemon yellow of the bodice, the ultramarine apron, a white plaster wall, and the browns and golds of the bread and the wicker, and it makes a room feel calm and clean. It suits a kitchen above all, and also a dining room, a breakfast nook, a hallway, or a bedroom, and it fits Dutch, farmhouse, Scandinavian, and quiet-traditional interiors. The original is about 18 × 16 in, so the Medium at 16 × 18 in is close to true size and the honest choice. The Large at 24 × 27 in and the Extra Large at 36 × 40.4 in are there for a wall that needs presence.
Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring is the pairing everyone reaches for. The Lacemaker is his other woman absorbed in a task, and The Little Street is the Delft outside her window. More from Johannes Vermeer.
Printed in our studio from the Rijksmuseum's open-access photograph of the canvas, with the yellows and blues held to that reference.
Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. He produced relatively few paintings, primarily earning his living as an art dealer. He was not wealthy; at his death, his wife was left in debt.
All Johannes Vermeer prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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