In the spring I was stunned, wanting one day to see Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and his View of Delft at the Mauritshuis and stumbling upon the great master’s three earliest works: The Procuress from Dresden, Christ in the House of Martha and Mary from Edinburgh and Diana and her Nymphs from the collection of the Mauritshuis itself (see blog 21th May).
Now the three paintings are in Dresden.
The exhibition in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister will feature major works of other artists to accompany each of the three paintings, as well as two lost paintings known only from catalogues.
Museums and collections around the world have loaned works by famous artists like Jacob Jordaens, Dirck van Baburen, Peter Paul Rubens, Leonaert Bramer, Giovanni Biliverti and Hendrick ter Brugghen, which will allow visitors to gain deep insight into the early stages of Vermeer’s artistic development.
The Dresden exhibition will feature a comprehensive educational programme for visitors of all ages, which will take as its starting point Dresden’s second Vermeer, Girl reading a letter at an open window (picture).
So it’s Dresden, Germany now. If you are in the neighbourhood. If not, just wait for Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland (10 December 2010 – 13 March 2011).
Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, 3 September - 28 November 2010
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