Officer and Laughing Girl

Johannes Vermeer

c. 1657 · Oil on canvas · The Frick Collection, New York

Size2:3 ratio

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Officer and Laughing Girl

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Girl with the Red Hat

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About this work

Artist: Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675)
Year: c. 1657
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 50.5 × 46 cm
Collection: The Frick Collection, New York
Movement: Dutch Golden Age

A soldier in a red coat and a broad beaver hat sits with his back to the viewer, so close that he fills the left of the picture, while a girl in a yellow bodice laughs at him across the table with a wine glass in her hand. Light pours through the open window on the left and lands on her face; behind her hangs a large printed map of Holland and West Friesland by Balthasar van Berckenrode. Vermeer painted it around 1657, early in his career, and the exaggerated difference in scale between the two figures has led many writers to suggest he was looking through a camera obscura. X-rays show he first gave the girl a large white collar and later extended her cap to frame her face. It belongs to The Frick Collection in New York, which also owns Girl Interrupted at Her Music and Mistress and Maid.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; 12×18 and 16×24 and 24×36 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

Shipping & returns

Produced in 2–4 business days, then shipped from the facility nearest you. Delivery is typically 3–6 business days (US/UK/EU) and 5–12 worldwide. Because each print is made to order we don't take change-of-mind returns, but if it arrives damaged or flawed we'll reprint or refund it — no return needed. Full policy →

Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is Officer and Laughing Girl in the public domain?

Yes. Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by The Frick Collection.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Officer and Laughing Girl painted, and in what medium?

Officer and Laughing Girl dates from c. 1657 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 50.5 × 46 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Johannes Vermeer's Officer and Laughing Girl — Officer and Laughing Girl — a soldier in a red coat and wide hat seen from behind, a smiling girl across the table beneath a map of Holland — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Light and Silence: The Dutch Interior, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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