A Maid Asleep
$47.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
A Maid Asleep, painted around 1656–57 by Johannes Vermeer, shows a young servant dozing at a table laid with fruit and an overturned glass, seen through a doorway that Vermeer originally filled with a second figure — visible in X-rays but painted out by the artist himself before completion, transforming a narrative scene into something quieter and more ambiguous. What remains is one of Vermeer's earliest fully realized interiors: warm light, a table of still-life objects, and a moment of private, unguarded rest.
Vermeer's decision to remove the second figure is itself revealing of his mature aesthetic — a preference for stillness and suggestion over anecdote, for interiors that invite the viewer to construct a story rather than being handed one. Only around thirty-four paintings are securely attributed to Vermeer, making every one, including this one, extraordinarily rare.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913), this masterwork is presented here as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Johannes Vermeer |
| Year | ca. 1656–57 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 34 1/2 x 30 1/8 in. (87.6 x 76.5 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Baroque (Dutch Golden Age) |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 20 × 25 cm (8″ × 10″) |
| Medium | 51 × 76 cm (20″ × 30″) |
| Large | 102 × 152 cm (40″ × 60″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
