National Gallery of Art - EXHIBITIONS

Johannes Vermeer: The Art of Painting

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Related Resources

Exhibition Overview

Exhibition Feature

Johannes Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance

View Related Collection Tour
Vermeer and Dutch Scenes of Daily Life

Works by
Johannes Vermeer
in the Gallery's Collection

Education Resource
Painting in the Dutch Golden Age: A Profile of the Seventeenth Century

Press Materials

Johannes Vermeer, The Art of Painting, c. 1666, oil on canvas, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna The Art of Painting by Johannes Vermeer was on loan from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, after nearly four years of conservation treatment. It was installed with four paintings from the Gallery's permanent collection: Vermeer's Woman Holding a Balance, A Lady Writing,and Girl with the Red Hat; and Girl with a Flute, attributed to Vermeer. The Art of Painting could not be included in the 1995-1996 exhibition Johannes Vermeer because of its fragile paint structure at the time. It was last seen in the United States in the 1949-1950 exhibition Art Treasures from the Vienna Collections.