Daily News | Is Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Vermeer “copy” actually a rare original?
,” appeared in 1927; that painting is part of the collection at London’s Kenwood House.
Arie Wallert, who made the surprising claim at the symposium, studies the style and technique of historical artworks from a scientific perspective. He believes that both paintings are original works by Vermeer and argues that the artist painted the pair from the same drawing.
Wallert also noted that “Lady with a Guitar” was in terrible condition, with the paint severely damaged and the canvas torn, due to poor maintenance before it arrived at PMA.“The painting has remained in stable condition since the Johnson Collection came under the care of the museum in the 1930s, although prior conservation efforts, sadly, had left the painting in a highly compromised state,” PMA director Sasha Suda wrote in a statement shared with The Inquirer.
“The future of ‘Lady with a Guitar’ at PMA will be to inspire discussion, embracing scholarship, and to seek more knowledge and enlightenment from this mysterious painting nearly 350 years after its creation,” she said. “Our conversation at the museum now is focused on the wonderful impossibility that this work of art remains on earth, in our care, and that historic works of art connect people and ideas through time.
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