The Astronomer
The story
A scholar in a Japanese-style robe reaches out to touch a celestial globe by a window. Painted in 1668 — Vermeer's only other male single-figure scholarly portrait beside The Geographer.
- Artist
- Johannes Vermeer
- Year
- 1664
- Period
- Baroque
- Where it lives
- Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
