Famous work · not an exact-location map point
The Astronomer
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
An interior study of a scholar at a table; the geocoded 'Nile' subject is inferred from a globe in the picture, not a place the work depicts.
- Date
- 1668
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Where the original is now
Department of Paintings of the Louvre
In the collection of Department of Paintings of the Louvre
On-view status is not live-verified — check the museum before visiting.
Sources
- Musée du Louvre, Paris — collection record for Johannes Vermeer, ‘L’Astronome’, Département des Peintures, inv. RF 1983-28; signed and dated 1668, oil on canvas, 51 × 45 cm (collections.louvre.fr)
- Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (ed.), ‘Johannes Vermeer’ (exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington / Mauritshuis, The Hague, 1995), cat. no. 16
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