[Sca-cooks] Vermeer's The Milkmaid- slightly OP

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Thu Sep 17 13:37:48 PDT 2009


> As part of the Henry Hudson celebration Vermeer's painting The  
> Milkmaid will be in NYC at the Met this fall.V
>
> The exhibit catalogue is by Walter Liedtke.
> The Milkmaid, painted by Johannes Vermeer about 1657-58, is one of  
> the most popular pictures of all time, and will be on loan from the  
> Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, to The Metropolitan Museum of Art from  
> September 9 through November 29, 2009, in celebration of the 400th  
> anniversary of Henry Hudson’s sail to Manhattan on behalf of the  
> Dutch East India Company. This 36-page catalogue discusses the  
> painting’s style, meaning, place within Vermeer’s oeuvre, its first  
> owner and later history. The author reveals that a long tradition of  
> amorous milkmaids and kitchen maids in Netherlandish art is  
> continued here with such subtle understatement that the artist’s  
> intentions have been misunderstood for generations. The  
> Metropolitan’s own five paintings by Vermeer and seven other Dutch  
> pictures in the collection are also included in the exhibition and  
> discussed in this generously illustrated publication.

The sections on milkmaids in paintings may be of interest to some of  
us who collect food in art images. The catalogue is less than $10.00.
>
> Johnnae




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