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...typical Dutch town - a canal, two town gates, a bridge and church steeples, a wide majestic sky, and over all a warm light dipping here and there to touch the waves, the boats and a little patch of yellow wall with a special brilliance. Jan Vermeer had painted Delft and the river Schie with all the sureness of one who had spent his entire life there. And even though his name was all but unknown, the painting was recognized as an "extraordinary" landscape (see color pages), purchased by The Hague in 1822, and hung next to a Rembrandt...
Gifts are fairly showering this week on Washington, D.C. Up on the walls of the National Gallery are two new Old Masters. Both are from the Low Countries: a rare Vermeer and an early 15th century Flemish miniature (see opposite page). Both have touches of mystery in their past. After nearly 400 years both are only now reaching the province of the public...
There are only about 40 works in the world solidly attributed to Vermeer, fewer than half a dozen outside of museums. Highly esteemed while he lived, the 17th century master of Delft was forgotten from his death until the 19th century, only to be rediscovered by the likes of J. Pierpont Morgan, who bought A Lady Writing in 1907. Vermeer, who usually showed his women in profile or looking away, made this lady all the more appealing by turning her full face to the viewer...
...subtle magic of Vermeer's art," exclaims Director John Walker, "the marvelous luminous effects, the soft texture of flesh and materials, the sense of suspended action and above all the tranquillity." One expert estimates that the Vermeer would have fetched $3 million on the auction block, but it will cost the National nothing. The gift of Harry Waldron Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer Jr. in memory of their father, the late Horace Havemeyer of the sugar-refining family, it will become the gallery's property upon the death of his widow...
...first exhibition anywhere, all those from U.S. collections are on view at Ohio's Dayton Art Institute and are scheduled to move to the Baltimore Museum of Art. Their baroque realism, their tickling highlights, merry laughter and moralizing mien have established Terbrugghen as a forerunner of Vermeer, La Tour and Rembrandt...