Johannes Vermeer, The Milkmaid, The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam ©.
Paris Musée du Louvre
Exhibition 22 February – 22 May 2017
The Musée du Louvre, in collaboration with the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, is holding a landmark exhibition about renowned painter Johannes Vermeer.
For the first time since 1966, this event will bring together twelve of the Delft master’s paintings – a third of his total known body of work – providing an insight into the fascinating relationships the artist maintained with other great painters of the Dutch Golden Age.
Thanks to special loans from the most prominent American, British, German, and naturally Dutch museums, visitors will be able to see Vermeer in a new light.
The exhibition does away with the legend of the reclusive artist living in his own inaccessible, silent world, without ever implying that Vermeer was just one painter of many. Indeed, his artistic temperament grew more distinct through encounters with other artists. Vermeer did more than launch a new movement: he acted as an agent of metamorphosis.
Exhibition curators: Blaise Ducos, Department of Paintings, Musée du Louvre, Paris, Adriaan E. Waiboer, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., National Gallery of Art, Washington.
http://www.louvre.fr/en/expositions/vermeer-and-masters-genre-painting