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Museum goers here in Philadelphia will have a rare opportunity to see a Vermeer at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, as the painting Young Woman Seated at a Virginal, along with work by Frans Hals and Rembrandt pupil Gerbrand van den Eeckhout will be on loan from the Leiden Collection until March, 2014. Those of…

Just a reminder to those on the east coast of the U.S. that several superb masterpieces from the Mauritshuis are currently on this side of the Atlantic, including Vermeer’s iconic Girl with a Pearl Earring. Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis just opened at the Frick Collection in New York,…

Of the thirty four (or so, depending on questions of attribution) known paintings by the remarkable Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, three are currently in London’s National Gallery. Two are in the permanent collection: A Young Woman standing at a Virginal (a virginal is a type of harpsichord) and A Young Woman seated at a Virginal.…

We have only thirty four, perhaps thirty five, acknowledged paintings by the remarkable 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer, so when one of his works is restored, revealing subtlties of color and detail not seen in centuries, it’s an occasion. It’s particularly noteworthy when the painting is one of Vermeer’s most beautiful and subtle works.…

Because of his astonishing skill and the unfortunately small number of his known works, the enigmatic Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer probably has one of the highest masterpiece/oeuvre ratios in the history of art. Among Vermeer’s (and the art world’s) most notable masterpieces is a small jewel of a painting called The Lacemaker. It has on…