PASADENA, CA.- The Norton Simon Museum presents the rare loan of Johannes Vermeer?s ?Woman with a Lute,? ca. 1662?63, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. One of about 36 known works by the Dutch master, five of which make their home at the Metropolitan Museum, the painting will be on view from July 8 through Sept. 26, 2011, providing audiences with the extraordinary opportunity to see a work by Vermeer on the West Coast.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has five, not counting one now established as fake. The National Gallery of Art in D.C. has four, not including its two known examples of forgeries. But no West Coast museum owns... Read Post
On loan from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Woman With a Lute,” by Johannes Vermeer, is on view through Sept. 26 at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena. As no West Coast museum actually owns a Vermeer, it’s a... Read Post