Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Portrait of a Young Woman (Vermeer)

Portrait of a Young Woman (Vermeer)

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Original – "Portrait of a Young Woman is a painting by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer, completed between 1666 and 1667, and now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Because of its near-identical size and its proximity in tone and composition, it is often considered to be either a variant or pendant painting (counterpart) of the artist's better-known Girl with a Pearl Earring. The subjects of both paintings wear pearl earrings, have scarves draped over their shoulders, and are shown in front of a plain black background."

Reason

High quality scan. We need more Vermeer. (Also goes well with our FP version of Girl with a Pearl Earring)

Articles in which this image appears

Portrait of a Young Woman (Vermeer) +2

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Johannes Vermeer

• Support as nominator –  — Crisco 1492 (talk) 06:47, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support Fantastic image - SchroCat (talk) 11:11, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support If I was able to wrest the girl of Crisco in order to nominate I would do it as soon as possible because the painting is out of any reproach. That has never got a lackluster view. I think Johannes Vermeer created it by a plethora of capability. I describe it in laconic and in one word, prodigious. __ Alborzagros (talk) 11:43, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support.--Jobas (talk) 12:31, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Not quite on a par with the "Mona Lisa of the North", but it is a Vermeer. Sca (talk) 14:27, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support, but I must say, it's considerably less aesthetic than the more famous one. There's something a bit strange about her face. Ðiliff «» (Talk) 23:40, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support - I agree with both Sca and Diliff. CorinneSD (talk) 00:20, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
• Support as above. Mattximus (talk) 01:13, 20 February 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Vermeer-Portrait of a Young Woman.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 06:55, 20 February 2015 (UTC)