Study of a Young WomanJohannes Vermeer (1632–1675) · ca. 1665–67The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0) · the museum’s recordscan 3,454 × 3,866 px
A masterwork Dutch Golden Age
Study of a Young Woman
Johannes Vermeer, 1632–1675, painted ca. 1665–67
Held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and released as Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0). It hangs here as a reference for a hand: paint your own line and the painters copy its brushwork, its palette and its light, and none of its subject.
A print of the scan itself, up to 20 × 30 inches from these 3,454 × 3,866 pixels. Nothing larger, because it would arrive soft.
- What a seed does
- The painting is the instruction. The painters take its handling, its surface and its light. Your line, or your photograph, is the only subject.
- The credit
- Every painting seeded from it carries “after Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675), Study of a Young Woman, The Metropolitan Museum of Art” on its plaque, and on the share page.
- The licence
- Public domain (The Met Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it. The scan is served with that credit in its headers, and it is never upscaled.