The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table reworkings of historic paintings, such as several works inspired by Millet's "Angelus". Images of anthropomorphic furniture as well as crutch-like objects are common in this period of his career. The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table is a small Surrealist oil painting by Salvador Dalí. Its full title is The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (Phenomenologic Theory of Furniture-Nutrition). It makes reference to "The Art of Painting" by Johannes Vermeer, a famous seventeenth-century work
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