"Girl with a Pearl Earring" (c. 1665) by Johannes Vermeer. Source: The Frick Collection
We’ve all seen this girl before. She has been the subject of a book, film, play, popular culture, and countless speculative theories, but few of us have seen her in person. If you’re in New York, now is your first and possibly last chance, at least for a long time. The Frick Collection is the final American venue to host 15 Dutch masterpieces, including the enigmatic “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” on loan from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Netherlands. These paintings have not traveled for 30 years.
As befitting her stature, Johannes Vermeer’s most beloved masterwork gets her own room, but the other carefully selected highlights from Maurishuis, including Rembrandt’s Simeon’s Song of Praise (c. 1631) and Frans Hals’s pendant portraits are not to be missed either. “Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals: Masterpieces of Dutch Painting from the Mauritshuis” is on view at The Frick from October 22, 2013 to January 19, 2014. Due to the unprecedented popularity of the exhibition, timed tickets are required.
