​Museum rivalry ‘could make Dutch Vermeer show last of its kind’

 
Girl with a Pearl Earring will be loaned to the Rijksmuseum from the Mauritshuis in The Hague.

“Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has announced a ‘first and last’ exhibition of all the paintings by Johannes Vermeer that are fit to travel, as its director claimed growing museum rivalry makes such international cooperation unlikely in the future. Vermeer, whose most famous work is Girl with a Pearl Earring, dating from around 1665, is thought to have painted 35 masterpieces, of which 23 were shown together 26 years ago at the Mauritshuis in The Hague. Taco Dibbits, the Rijksmuseum director, said his institution would surpass that number but he did not expect such a collection to ever be possible again owing to the age of the works and the intense competition among galleries to draw in visitors. ...”

 
Detail from The Little Street, circa 1658.

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