Little Is Known About Vermeer, but the Guy Is a Rock Star
That his achievement was unheralded for almost 200 years after his death can be hard to square given his fame now. A new film details the preparations leading up to the current retrospective of his paintings.
Where were you during the great Vermeer kerfuffle of 2022? It centered on “Girl With a Flute” (c. 1669-75), a staple of the collection of the National Gallery of Art at Washington, D.C., and an attribution that has long been held in question. Is the painting by a revered Dutch master, Johannes Vermeer (1632-75), or, as the museum states, the work of “Studio of Johannes Vermeer?”
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