Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting
PastVermeer et les maîtres de la peinture de genre
Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Dates
- 22 Feb 2017 – 22 May 2017
- Museum
Musée du Louvre
Twelve Vermeers placed in dialogue with their genre-painting rivals — including the Met's Allegory of the Catholic Faith and the Rijksmuseum's Milkmaid, both shown only at the Paris leg. Curated by Blaise Ducos, Adriaan E. Waiboer, and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr.
Paintings12
A Lady Writing
1662–1667
Woman with a Lute
1662–1665
Woman with a Pearl Necklace
1662–1665
Woman Holding a Balance
1662–1665
The Lacemaker
1669–1671
The Astronomer
1668
The Geographer
1668–1669
The Love Letter
1667–1670
Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid
1670–1671
Mistress and Maid
1666–1668
Allegory of Faith
1670–1674
The Milkmaid
1657–1661
Sources
- Blaise Ducos, Adriaan E. Waiboer, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Vermeer et les maîtres de la peinture de genre, exh. cat. (Louvre / Yale University Press, 2017)
- Studio International — 'Exhibited in Paris but not in Dublin or Washington was Vermeer's Allegory of the Catholic Faith'
- Jonathan Janson, Essential Vermeer — per-painting catalogue cross-reference (The Milkmaid: 'Paris February 22–May 22, 2017, section 17, no. 2.')