The Geographer ☷ Vermeer ☶ Canvas sunset Signac captures a huge umbrella

Signac captures a huge umbrella pine casting shade on a green field of grass

The woman is dressed in a colonial print apron evoking rural Americana while the man is wearing overalls and suit jacket

The painting was displayed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston before being stolen in 1990

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The Geographer ☷ Vermeer ☶ Canvas sunset Signac captures a huge umbrellaThe Geographer (1669) by Johannes Vermeer is one of only three paintings Vermeer signed and dated (the other two are The Astronomer and The Procuress). It is closely paired with The Astronomer, which used the same model in the same dress, and the canvas came from the same bolt of material. Vermeer's devotion to accuracy is demonstrated in the painting's details. The geographer, dressed in a Japanese style robe then popular among scholars, is