Missed the recent landmark exhibition of paintings by Johannes Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam?
All is not lost.
Six of the 28 paintings by Vermeer featured in the exhibition will be on display at the museum until October 10, while the three paintings from the Frick Collection in New York featured in the exhibition are back home and on display through March 3, 2024.
Visitors look at the painting "Mistress and Maid" during the opening of the Johannes Vermeer ... [+]
In addition, for the true Vermeer aficionado, The Art Newspaper has published what it calls an “insider’s guide” to how and where to see every Vermeer painting worldwide, from London and New York to Braunschweig in Germany and Tokyo.
On display at the Rijksmuseum’s Gallery of Honor are The Girl in the Red Hat (National Gallery of Art, Washington) and Young Woman at the Virginal (Leiden Collection, New York) as well as the four works by Vermeer from the museum’s collection, The Milkmaid, The Little Street, Woman Reading a Letter and The Love Letter.
The Rijksmuseum exhibition featured 28 paintings by or attributed to Vermeer, “the most that one exhibition has ever shown from his surviving oeuvre of only around 38 canvasses,” said the Frick Collection. The Frick’s loans to the exhibition were made possible by the renovation and enhancement of its East 70th Street buildings, which it called “key to securing the Rijksmuseum exhibition’s historic scope.”
The Frick’s Vermeer paintings are Officer and Laughing Girl, Girl Interrupted at Her Music and Mistress and Maid.
According to the Rijksmuseum, seven of the 28 paintings in its exhibition had never been on public display in the Netherlands before, including the Frick’s and Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, from the Gemaldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden, Germany.
The Rijksmuseum also said 650,000 people from 113 nations saw the exhibition, which was on display from February 10 to June 4 and was the most successful in its history.
“Vermeer is the artist of peacefulness and intimacy. We wanted the visitors to enjoy it to the fullest. This was only possible by limiting the number of visitors. The Rijksmuseum is grateful for the generous loans from museums around the world that have enabled it to bring together more works by Vermeer than ever before,” said Taco Dibbits, general director of the Rijksmuseum.
Ian Wardropper, director of the Frick Collection, said, “We are thrilled to have participated in this thought-provoking and visually stunning presentation of the great artist’s works. The show—one of the most talked about art world events of the year, if not the decade—offered audiences from around the world, both in person and online, new ways to consider Vermeer’s oeuvre, taking advantage of thematic groupings and recent technical analysis. Having never loaned our three works simultaneously before, we found the experience deeply enriching.”
