This is a very interesting presentation. Yesterday I saw an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., "Vermeer's Secrets", in which they explain how they determined that the "Girl with a Flute" is not by Vermeer. They compared it to their three authentic Vermeers, especially "Girl with a Red Hat". The handling of paint was very precise in the authentic Vermeers, but fairly blotchy in the Girl with a Flute. The Girl with a Flute had highlights, particularly green highlights, in places where Vermeer wouldn't put them, such as in the mouth. And Vermeer used coarsely-ground pigment as an under layer of paint and finely-ground pigment as the top layer, while in the Girl with a Flute, the coarsely-ground pigment was on top. There is a lot more to the exhibit, and I recommend it. The exhibit runs to January 8, 2023.
Thank you for that detailed feedback. There is more information about the exhibition on the NGA website at www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/vermeers-secrets.html and more detail about the findings here www.nga.gov/press/exhibitions/exhibitions-2022/5675.html
Just hearing about "The Monument Men". I must watch this film, because also discovered was all the wine which the Nazis had "requisitioned "from France. All told in a fantastic book by Donald Kladsrup - "Wine and War ".
Hi excellent discussion ,u say there is an idea that Vermeer used a camera obscura ,he did its been proved in the Tim Jenison film on the recreation of The music lesson.
Very good video but amazed to hear such benign intrepretations of Vermeer´s work, it´s like he was so good painter that he could not have sexual or herotic or other interpretations although he spent all his mother´s in law money and went on a bender that cost his life drowning in a canal . That´s the opposite of prudence reflected in his paintings, anyway that is art.
i have always loved the girl with the flute… but, to me, the biggest clue that it is not a vermeer is the very clumsily drawn hand. it really is not up to his standard.
