The Girl with the Milk Jug

«Rosemond has a great talent for bringing the reader back to the past. Very few writers can do this so convincingly».

«The Girl with the Milk Jug» — a historical novel about Jan Vermeer — Vermeer of Delft, one of... the greatest painters of his time.
Like Tracy Chevalier's novel «Girl with a Pearl Earring», it tells the story of the creation of the painting «The Girl with the Milk Jug», but the main intrigue revolves around the painting «The Procuress».
Matthias Rosemond immerses us in the atmosphere of 17th century Holland, depicting everyday life and life in Delft of that era: religious controversies, the stories of two families of Jan Vermeer and his wife Catharina, a love story, the investigation of the maid Tanneke, whose portrait in a blue apron we see in the painting «The Girl with the Milk Jug».
You will surely want to see these paintings.
The exhibition dedicated to the works of the Dutch artist Jan Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam became the most popular exhibition in the world in 2023. The exhibition featured a record number of the master's works — 28 out of 37 recognized works of the artist that have survived to this day. The exhibition was attended by 650,000 people.