Past
In the Light of Vermeer
Dans la lumière de Vermeer
The Paris leg of the Mauritshuis jubilee show, expanded to twelve Vermeers with three Paris-only additions — The Little Street from the Rijksmuseum, The Art of Painting from Vienna, and the then still privately owned Astronomer from the Rothschild family. Three of the twelve were on loan from private collections (the Wrightsman Study, the Rothschild Astronomer, and the Havemeyer A Lady Writing).
- Dates
- 24 Sept 1966 – 28 Nov 1966
- Museum
Musée de l'Orangerie
Paintings12
Diana and her Companions
1653–1656
The Milkmaid
1657–1661
View of Delft
1660–1663
The Little Street
1657–1661
Young Woman with a Water Pitcher
1662–1665
Girl with a Pearl Earring
1665
Study of a Young Woman
1665–1674
The Art of Painting
1662–1668
The Astronomer
1668
The Music Lesson
1662–1665
The Guitar Player
1670–1673
A Lady Writing
1662–1667
Sources
- A. B. de Vries and René Huyghe, In het licht van Vermeer / Dans la lumière de Vermeer, exh. cat. (N.V. Ando, The Hague, 1966)
- Musée du Louvre, provenance record for The Astronomer (accepted in lieu of inheritance tax, 1983)
- Jonathan Janson, Essential Vermeer — per-painting catalogue cross-reference to the 1966 Orangerie Roman-numeral entries