Vermeer-tentoonstelling

Past

Commemorating the opening of the Rijksmuseum, 13 July 1885

Dates: 21 Oct 1935 – 3 Nov 1935
Museum: Rijksmuseum

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.

Paintings8

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary

1654–1656

The Milkmaid

1657–1661

A Lady Writing

1662–1667

The Little Street

1657–1661

The Lacemaker

1669–1671

Young Woman with a Water Pitcher

1662–1665

Woman in Blue Reading a Letter

1662–1665

The Love Letter

1667–1670

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