Art Analysis: The Concert Painting

The Procuress is hung on the wall that would form part of The Concert painting that Vermeer is painting of his patron van Ruijven and his daughter and sister. I think that the author had Griet focusing on this painting to remind her who she was. In other words, it encouraged her to remain decent, and humble. On page 186 van Leeuwenhoek said to Griet, “Take care to remain yourself.” When Griet srated to work for the family she was exposed to a different environment. While working there she was also reminded a maid who was in a painting a long with van Ruijven, who then was discovered having an affair with her master and ended up having a child of his. He reputation was destroyed, and Griet feared that the same would happen to her as well. I think that Vermeer has come to see Griet the way that the girl in the the painting is portrayed.
He is interested in you in part because van Ruijven is.” Considering that Pieter the son keeps looking for her, and van Ruijven has an obsession with has caused him to believe that she someone resembles that image. In the other hand, I think Griet has come to notice that she deserves better. On page, 169 Griet describes the painting as, "a picture of three people--a woman playing a lute, wearing a dress that revealed much of her bosom, a gentleman with his arm around her, and an old woman. The man was buying the young woman's favors, the old woman reaching to take the coin he held out.” Considering the fact that a Procuress is a woman who prostitutes, at the end of the book the painting is suppose to signify how Griet is the total opposite of what the painting symbolizes. Van Ruijven wants Vermeer to paint him with Griet so that he can attempt to seduce her the way he did a previous maid. Maria Thins was able to suggest to him another painting that appealed to him just as much as the painting he had in