For Fervent Fans of the Dutch Masters, ‘It’s a Dream Come True’

Clockwise from top left: Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; National Gallery of Art

‘Dream Come True’ for Dutch Masters Fans

By RANDY KENNEDY

During a temporary convergence, about 40 percent of all known Johannes Vermeer paintings are on view on the Eastern Seaboard, drawing an influx of Dutch art lovers.

• Interactive Graphic: The Vermeer Road Trip
  US News Editor - 28 November 2013 1:30

  
  

  
  
  Shin-Ichi Fukuoka, a molecular biologist from Tokyo, genuinely — genuinely — enjoys Johannes Vermeer. He has traveled all around the entire world to pay a visit to 34 of the 36 paintings identified or thought to be Vermeers.
  
  And previous yr he approved a visiting professorship in New York in big part to witness an terribly exceptional prevalence: the Frick Collection’s own 3 splendid Vermeers and 3 Rembrandts joined briefly by fifteen performs on loan from one particular of the world’s best Dutch collections, the Royal Photograph Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague, such as a single of the most popular faces in Western art, “Girl With a Pearl Earring.”
  A halo surrounds Golden Age paintings from the Northern Netherlands far more than almost any interval of art. The Dutch masters of the 17th century — among them Vermeer, Rembrandt, Hals, Fabritius — draw faithful and obsessive museumgoers who rival individuals Wagner fanatics who vacation the planet to listen to every “Ring” cycle.
  Like Mr. Fukuoka, they arrange their vacations, their business outings, their looking through, their close friends and a good part of the relaxation of their lives around looking at the tranquil masterpieces created throughout one particular of the higher points in painting’s background. The Frick present “Vermeer, Rembrandt and Hals” — manufactured achievable simply because the Mauritshuis is loaning out its treasures during an substantial renovation — broke a single-day attendance file throughout the exhibition’s initial weekend. But a convergence is also driving traffic to the exhibition: With 4 Vermeers at the Frick via Jan. 19, 5 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, four at the Nationwide Gallery of Artwork in Washington and one attributed, in entire or in element, to Vermeer now on financial loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Jap Seaboard temporarily functions 38.eight % of all identified Vermeers, obtainable by Amtrak. (A documented thirty seventh portray has extended been disputed.)
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