Vermeer and the Delft School
PastMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Dates
- 8 Mar 2001 – 27 May 2001
Fifteen Vermeers placed alongside their Delft milieu in New York — eighty-five paintings, thirty-five drawings, and decorative arts in all. Curated by Walter Liedtke with Axel Rüger and Michiel Plomp, with a 626-page Yale University Press catalogue. The catalogue listed sixteen Vermeer entries (cat. nos. 64–79); cat. 66 — Dresden's The Procuress — travelled only to the London leg. Sponsored by BP.
Paintings15
Diana and her Companions
1653–1656
Christ in the House of Martha and Mary
1654–1656
A Maid Asleep
1656–1657
The Milkmaid
1657–1661
The Little Street
1657–1661
The Glass of Wine
1658–1661
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
1662–1665
Woman with a Lute
1662–1665
Woman Holding a Balance
1662–1665
Girl with a Red Hat
1665–1667
Study of a Young Woman
1665–1674
The Art of Painting
1662–1668
Allegory of Faith
1670–1674
A Lady Standing at a Virginal
1670–1674
A Lady Seated at a Virginal
1670–1675
Sources
- Walter Liedtke, Vermeer and the Delft School, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2001), 626 pp., cat. nos. 64–79
- Brooklyn Rail and Studio International exhibition reviews (2001)
- Jonathan Janson, Essential Vermeer — per-painting catalogue cross-reference and PubHist installation listing