Wed Mar 20, 2019 10:53 PM

There’s a fantastic collection of 30 or so mostly baroque paintings of lacemakers put together as part of a discussion of the composition for Vermeer’s The Lacemakere. The thing I found most interesting is that 6 or 7 of them seem to be consulting pattern books. Of course that could be wishful thinking on my part. http://www.essentialvermeer.com/related_vermeer_paintings/lace.html#.XJMfwklME0M

(The Lacemaker, Gerrit Dou,1663 Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe)

(The Lace-maker. Nicholas Maes 1655 The National Gallery of Canada)