Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry

Past

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Dates: 22 Oct 2017 – 21 Jan 2018
Museum: National Gallery of Art

The third and final venue of the Louvre/Dublin tour, with ten Vermeers among roughly seventy works in all. The selection matched the Dublin checklist; the Met's Allegory of the Catholic Faith and the Rijksmuseum's Milkmaid hung only at the Paris leg. Catalogue by Adriaan E. Waiboer (NGI), Blaise Ducos (Louvre), and Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (NGA).

Paintings10

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

Sources

Adriaan E. Waiboer, Blaise Ducos, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry, exh. cat. (NGA / Yale University Press, 2017)
National Gallery of Art press release — 'features 10 paintings by Vermeer'
Jonathan Janson, Essential Vermeer — per-painting catalogue cross-reference to Washington 2017