Girl with a Flute to hang in the Netherlands as a painting by the Dutch master – but US gallery say it is the work of an associate
A detail from Girl with a Flute, circa 1669/1675. The National Gallery of Art in Washington has attributed it to the studio of Johannes Vermeer but the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam believes it was painted by the artist himself.A detail from Girl with a Flute, circa 1669/1675. The National Gallery of Art in Washington has attributed it to the studio of Johannes Vermeer but the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam believes it was painted by the artist himself.
“I never considered it as satisfying as other paintings by Vermeer,” Marjorie E Wieseman, the head of the department of northern European paintings at Washington’s National Gallery, told the Guardian. Close examination revealed awkward brushwork. The paint had been handled in a heavy-handed way that “pooled and almost dripped”, the teamin the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art. Pigments used in the final paint were coarsely ground, rather than the fine top layers favoured by Vermeer. There were also broken bristles lodged in the paint, suggesting the artist used unusual force, or an old or poorly made brush. Even the composition was blocky and awkward, they wrote.
Girl with a Flute will feature in the largest-ever exhibition of Vermeer’s work, opening on 10 February at the Rijksmuseum. The museum hopes to display at least 28 works, including loans such as Girl with a Pearl Earring and. Before the exhibition, the museum has upgraded three disputed paintings, including Girl with a Flute, as works by Vermeer, increasing the tally of surviving works by the artist to 37.
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