100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum

The Moscow showing of 100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum opened at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (28 August – 2 November 1975), after its run at the Hermitage in Leningrad. Drawn from the core of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, it presented Italian, Dutch, Spanish, German, English and French old masters alongside the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, with a small group of American realist works.

The exhibition’s lone Vermeer was Woman with a Lute(no. 24 in the catalogue), one of the Metropolitan’s small group of paintings by the Delft master.