The Milkmaid 1658-60 Artwork by Jan Vermeer, 18 by 24-Inch Canvas Wall Art

This ready to hang, gallery-wrapped art piece features a woman arranging food on a table. Johannes Vermeer (31 October, 1632 – 15 December, 1675), a Dutch artist, was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime, well known for his treatment of light and use of expensive pigments. Though he faded into obscurity following his death, he was rediscovered in the 19th century in an essay, written by Gustav Friedrich Waagen and Theophile Thore-Burger, which attributed sixty-six paintings to him and he is now considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. Giclee (jee-clay) is an advanced printmaking process for creating high quality fine art reproductions. The attainable excellence that Giclee printmaking affords makes the reproduction virtually indistinguishable from the original piece. The result is wide acceptance of Giclee by galleries, museums and private collectors. Gallery wrap is a method of stretching an artist’s canvas so that the canvas wraps around the sides and is secured a hidden, wooden frame. This method of stretching and preparing a canvas allows for a frameless presentation of the finished painting.