A Lost Vermeer?

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Is an unknown Vermeer painting hidden in storage in an American museum? In 2023, a Dutch scholar argued that a painting at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was actually by Johannes Vermeer. The painting was previously thought to be a copy of a Vermeer painting, The Guitar Player, which is at London's Kenwood House. In this video I review the arguments pro and con. See below for more information about the controversy. And, my apologies for the confusing labels at 2:41. Once a RU-vid is published, you can't change it without taking it down and staring over.
See @johnimmerwahr1194 for my other videos about art. The list of my RU-vid videos is also here:
www.youtube.com/@johnimmerwah...
Guitar intro music: Henry Purcell, Rondeau, performed by Daniel Corr, (www.danielcorr.com/)
News Sources:
de Volkskrant (Netherlands):
www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-med...
The Art Newspaper (UK):www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/...
ARTnews:
www.artnews.com/art-news/news...
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
www.inquirer.com/news/vermeer...
Other information
A link to A Lady With A Guitar, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
philamuseum.org/collection/ob...
More about Kenwood House, home of Vermeer’s, The Guitar Player
www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...
EssentialVermeer.com is an excellent resource on all of Vermeer’s paintings and has a useful section on the Guitar Player.
www.essentialvermeer.com/catal...

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4 июн 2023

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@danielschmock6338 2 месяца назад

The Kenwood house painting looking at it with the right eye and the other looking at that with the left eye combining them makes the background picture sink back, the figure pull forward and the knee pop forward. There's a nice 3D effect happening.

@marthajohnson300 Год назад

Such a fascinating discussion of this intriguing possibility -- a Vermeer at the Philadelphia Museum. Wow!

@dennismcclellan7504 Год назад

Appreciate the brief course on 'reading' a painting. Have got to visit the Museum again on my next visit back home from Florida. Been too long.

@gailweigl5696 Год назад

As always John, you pack so much information into a short video--you are a master teacher. I've never loved the Kenwood painting, and actually like the Philadelphoia painting more. Here the suggestions seems to be that she is indeed playing for an udience of one, a lover. Music was commonly a symbol of love, illicit and otherwise. This is certainly a most interesting painting, and how sad that the overcleaning has impacted a definitive attribution.

@russellgs2 Год назад

This is amazing. I learned so much about the question and about Vermeer.

@ShelleyHannaArt 11 месяцев назад

It really makes sense that the velatura layer was scrubbed away. That final layer is the magic layer.

@msbyrnes218 Год назад

Excellent!

@jamesmortimer4405 Год назад

There’s no way that is a Vermeer … notwithstanding possible damage, it just lacks the subtlety and refinement of his work. Also, there’s no other examples of Vermeer duplicating one of his compositions

@paulwoodford1984 Месяц назад

yeah i painted that

@cindyoverall8139 29 дней назад

Yes.. You are correct. That painting is no where near his ability. What has always amazed me is that faker of Vermeer having any credence whatsoever. Vermeer is one of the world's top masters and that should be always be so.

@cindyoverall8139 Месяц назад

Both of those were probably done by his daughter, Elizabeth. Look at the hand of those compared to The Music Lesson. The latter is obviously done by the master, Vermeer. These two look like “paint by number” in comparison. He taught his daughter his method of using mirrors. Tim is correct in his acclimation. Vermeer’s style had a soft and highly detailed stroke using chiaroscuro even akin to Leonardo. The Milkmaid is phenomenal to that of the guitar players.. no comparison. The worst is The Girl in Front of the Pianoforte. The model is the same girl at the same age that is the other portrait of a young girl.. Anne, his other daughter. This proves that there was another painter in his studio. That person did the leg work of preparation. The Girl With The Flute is definitely by Vermeer because of its masterly style, despite the ground being different. The curator of the National Gallery should listen to the greatest authority of Vermeer, the newly retired head of the Rijks Museum. His swan song was the greatest exhibition in the history of art and we should all bow down in gratitude.

@johnimmerwahr1194 29 дней назад

Thanks for this interesting comment. All of this is way above my pay grade (I am a volunteer) but I am so glad my little video is prompting serious discussion.

@reference2592 11 месяцев назад

No. Solved it for you.

@paulwoodford1984 Месяц назад

that’s my work

@jon780249 2 месяца назад

Far fetched to think that is a Vermeer. It simply lacks the quality one sees in authenticated Vermeers. In addition it is highly unlikely Vermeer would have copied his own painting, but changed various details. A non issue.

@johnimmerwahr1194 2 месяца назад

Thanks. I really am not qualified to have an opinion about who painted this. However, the argument that it is Vermeer requires a lot of assumptions. None seems to me unreasonable in itself, but how likely is it that they are all true?