Lady and two gentlemen is a painting by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer.
The works of Vermeer have been given their names by museum curators and art critics and have no fixed titles. The Lady and Two Gentlemen, is sometimes also called The Girl with the Wineglass. It is very similar to the painting The Glass of Wine, which is also called Woman with a Drinking Glass and Drinking Lady with a Gentleman.
The painting depicts a domestic scene. On the canvas a lady is being seduced with a glass of wine by a gentleman. The painting, which was created around 1659-1661, belongs to the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig, which originated from the Kunstkammer of Duke Anton Ulrich of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel.
Original size is 77.5 × 66.7 cm.
Johannes Vermeer (baptized in Delft, 31 October 1632 - buried there, 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter in the Golden Age.
Vermeer had a preference for timeless, subdued moments. He remains enigmatic because of his inimitable coloring and bewildering light. Vermeer's paintings, mostly genre pieces and a few history pieces, allegories and cityscapes, are distinguished by a subtle use of colour and ideal composition. He sometimes used expensive pigments and had a great preference for ultramarine and lead-tinged yellow.
