Past
Vermeer Exhibition
Vermeer-tentoonstelling
Commemorating the opening of the Rijksmuseum, 13 July 1885
Improvised by F. Schmidt-Degener using thirty-five paintings borrowed from the Boijmans show plus Rijksmuseum holdings — forty-one paintings in total, of which eight were Vermeers, two of them (Woman in Blue Reading a Letter and The Love Letter) drawn from the Rijksmuseum's own collection. The exhibition drew 123,000 visitors in just two weeks, including the Royal Family.
- Dates
- 21 Oct 1935 – 3 Nov 1935
- Museum
Rijksmuseum
Paintings8
Sources
- Gary Schwartz, 'Schwartzlist 416: The Vermeer exhibitions of 1935' (23 April 2023)
- Justine Rinnoy Kan, 'The Vermeer exhibition of 1935: a major debut in historical perspective,' Oud Holland 134 (2021), no. 4, pp. 210–234
- Jonathan Janson, Essential Vermeer — per-painting catalogue cross-reference to Rijksmuseum 1935 cat. nos. 162–169