The Milkmaid\u00a0(De Melkmeid\u00a0or\u00a0Het Melkmeisje), sometimes called\u00a0The Kitchen Maid, is an oil-on-canvas painting of a “milkmaid”, in fact a domestic kitchen maid, by the\u00a0Dutch\u00a0artist Johannes (Jan) Vermeer. It is now in the\u00a0Rijksmuseum\u00a0in\u00a0Amsterdam,\u00a0Netherlands, which regards it as “unquestionably one of the museum’s finest attractions”.<\/p>\n
The painting is strikingly\u00a0illusionistic, conveying not just details but a sense of the weight of the woman and the table. \u00a0“It’s a little bit of a\u00a0Mona Lisa\u00a0effect” in modern viewers’ reactions to the painting, according to Walter Liedtke,\u00a0curator\u00a0of the department of\u00a0European paintings\u00a0at\u00a0The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and organizer of two Vermeer exhibits. “There’s a bit of mystery about her for modern audiences. She is going about her daily task, faintly smiling. And our reaction is ‘What is she thinking?'”<\/p>\n
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