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
The Lacemaker (Maes) in turn sold it on for $27,500 to Michael Friedsam. Friedsam bequeathed it to the museum in 1931. The Lacemaker (Maes) The Lacemaker (circa 1656) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes. It is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This painting is typical of many paintings of women in interiors painted by Maes in the 1650s. The woman is making bobbin lace using a lace pillow that can be seen in other Maes paintings of lacemakers: The child in a highchair