The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table on a crutch. It is unsigned and undated but known to have been completed c.1934. It is currently on display at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, on loan from the E. and A. Reynolds Morse collection. Around 1934, Dalí produced several other works inspired by "The Art of Painting": Dalí revered Vermeer, and also drew several times on his "The Lacemaker", for instance in "Paranoiac-Critical Study of Vermeer's Lacemaker". Dali also painted a copy of "The Lacemaker" on commission from collector Robert Lehman. "The Ghost of Vermeer" should also be seen in the context of his other
Portrait of a Man with a Beer Jug genre of the work is similar to works painted by Hals in the early thirties, the rough brush strokes are more similar to his work in the sixties. Possibly, the man with the jug and Guldewagen himself are the same: In an old genre painting of Haarlem from the 1650s, a man is transporting beer jugs with a horse-drawn sled. The jugs have a red deer on them, the symbol of Guldewagen's brewery: Portrait of a Man with a Beer Jug Portrait of a man with a beer jug is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals,