Vermeer's Masterpiece to be displayed in New York
August 17, 2009
The Milkmaid-Vermeer's Masterpiece is to go on display in the US for the first time after 70 years.The painting will be revealed as a segment of an exhibition on the 17th-century Dutch artist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art next month.The Milkmaid,dating from 1658, shows a milkmaid in a blue as well as yellow dress pouring milk from a jug into a bowl. The Milkmaid painting was lastly visible in the US at the 1939 World's Fair, in New York The painting will be loaned to the New York gallery next month by Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum.
Around 5 other works by Vermeer from the gallery's own compilation will also go on display, as well as paintings by other Dutch painters. Vermeer is considered to be one of the supreme Dutch artists, nevertheless only 36 of his paintings survive today.
Johan Vermeer Vermeer always painted slowly and with great attention to detaiil, using bright colours, occasionally expensive pigments, with a preference for cornflower blue and yellow. He is specially well known for his masterly treatment and use of light in his work.
The exhibition commences on September 10 and continues until November 29.
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