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Vermeer Exhibit to Unite Milkmaid

and The Milkmaid.

The Night Watch Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq The Night Watch Militia Company of District II under the Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq

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The Milkmaid and the Night Watch The collection of doll’s houses, model ships and armoury The Cuypers Library, the oldest and biggest collection of art history books in the Netherlands.

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The Milkmaid and the Night Watch The collection of doll’s houses, model ships and armoury The Cuypers Library, the oldest and biggest collection of art history books in the Netherlands.

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The Milkmaid and the Night Watch The collection of doll’s houses, model ships and armoury The Cuypers Library, the oldest and biggest collection of art history books in the Netherlands.

A mother and a daughter watch Delfst Blauw A mother and a daughter watch Delfst Blauw

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The Milkmaid and the Night Watch The collection of doll’s houses, model ships and armoury The Cuypers Library, the oldest and biggest collection of art history books in the Netherlands.

A mother and a daughter watch Delfst Blauw A mother and a daughter watch Delfst Blauw

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The Milkmaid and the Night Watch The collection of doll’s houses, model ships and armoury The Cuypers Library, the oldest and biggest collection of art history books in the Netherlands.

A mother and a daughter watch Delfst Blauw A mother and a daughter watch Delfst Blauw

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The Milkmaid and the Night Watch The collection of doll’s houses, model ships and armoury The Cuypers Library, the oldest and biggest collection of art history books in the Netherlands.

Reviews: Much of a Dutchness: the world’s biggest ever Vermeer show is an unmissable feast -

Elsewhere, a milkmaid is pouring milk and preparing a basket of bread.

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It is home to Dutch masterpieces, like The Milkmaid by Vermeer, Self-portrait by Van Gogh, The Jolly Drinker by Judith Leyster, The Merry Family by Jan Steen, and Rembrandt’s Night Watch.

The Big Review: Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum ★★★★★

The Milkmaid is dominated in our minds’ eyes by blue and yellow, yet she wears a red skirt. And throughout the galleries, highlights gleam and shine like silent, spangled stars.

Taco Dibbits, General Director Rijksmuseum. Taco Dibbits, General Director Rijksmuseum.

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‘The Milkmaid’, Milkmaid by Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting. Masterworks from the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Tokio (The National Art Centre) 2007, pp. 4-13; cat. tent.

There will never be another Vermeer show as great as this one

And last year, the Rijksmuseum announced it had found a few more errant objects — a jug holder and fire basket — lurking behind the woman in the museum’s “The Milkmaid.”

Why Are So Many Once-in-a-Lifetime Art Exhibitions Happening in Our Lifetime?

The Rijksmuseum has done extensive scans of various works in advance of the Vermeer exhibition, yielding, among other discoveries, the knowledge that its own The Milkmaid (1658–59) contained an underpainting with preliminary sketches that the artist later

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