The Lacemaker (Vermeer) hinting again at a sexual overtone. According to the art historian Lawrence Gowing, The Lacemaker (Vermeer) The Lacemaker is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), completed around 1669–1670 and held in the Louvre, Paris. The work shows a young woman dressed in a yellow shawl, holding up a pair of bobbins in her left hand as she carefully places a pin in the pillow on which she is making her bobbin lace. At 24.5 cm x 21 cm (9.6 in x 8.3 in), the work is the smallest of Vermeer's paintings, but in many ways one of
The Number Painter woman holding the umbrella (#4); the woman inside the elevator having her plastic handbag painted on (#7); and finally, the doctor saying "Next" to her patients (#11). The Number Painter The Number Painter, also known as The Mad Painter, was the title character of a series of comedy live-action films produced for the children's television program "Sesame Street". This series of slapstick films — each one ran anywhere from one minute to 90 seconds — were used to teach children number recognition, including appearance and symbolic representation of Arabic numerals, and how the number is drawn. As such, "The Number