Region B-02 · Hondius Celestial Globe & Leaded Window

X: 29% · Y: 48% · Macro 3.5×

LOUPE

3.5× BRUSHWORK DETAIL

Surface Texture Note

Pointillist pointillé globules of lead-tin yellow and pure natural ultramarine simulating optical circles of confusion, alongside the inscribed date MDCLXVIII on the cupboard.

Pan

1.0× FitZoom Level: 3.5×4.0× Grain

Verified Historical Metadata

Dutch Golden Age

The Astronomer

Johannes Vermeer (1668)

Archival Specifications

Dimensions: 51.0 × 45.0 cm
Medium: Oil on Linen Canvas
Location: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

Extracted Studio Palette

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Provenance

1713—Recorded at the Rotterdam auction of collector Adriaen Paets (paired with The Geographer)

1881—Purchased in Paris by Baron Alphonse de Rothschild; inherited by Baron Édouard de Rothschild in 1905

1940—Confiscated in Paris by the Nazi Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR); restituted to the Rothschild family in 1945

1983—Entered the Musée du Louvre collection via dation in lieu of inheritance taxes from the Rothschild estate

Restoration Note

Fiber-optic reflectance spectroscopy confirms a brownish-grey chalk and umber ground. A minuscule pinhole at the window mullion indicates Vermeer used a string-and-pin system to construct the orthogonal perspective.

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