The Geographer

The Geographer is a painting created by the Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer around 1668 to 1669, now held in the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany. It depicts a scholar at work surrounded by the instruments of his trade, and is closely related to Vermeer's companion painting The Astronomer, which uses the same model in the same clothing and has sometimes been treated as a pendant to it. A 2017 technical study found that the canvases for both paintings were cut from the same bolt of cloth, reinforcing the long-suspected connection between the two works. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/