Logo courtesy of Musée de l'Orangerie

Dans la lumière de Vermeer

Past

Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

Dates
24 Sept 196628 Nov 1966
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).

Paintings12

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