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 Woman with the Spider's Web outcome and when asked by his brother to produce further works for transfer, he declined, writing, "ask another artist". Original cuts of "Woman with the Spider's Web" are in the British Museum, London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, amongst other locations. The image shows a female figure sitting by a dead tree as she solemnly looks into the distance, away from the viewer. Her elbow rests on a broken tree branch, while, according to art historian Albert Boime, "all around her weeds have sprung up (including the sickening thistles, traditional symbols of melancholy)". Many of the overgrown