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A Love Letter to Vermeer at The Frick Collection

The New York gallery’s new exhibition explores three Dutch masterpieces featuring love letter writing.
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A Love Letter to Vermeer at The Frick Collection
“Mistress and Maid,” circa 1664–1667, by Johannes Vermeer. Oil on canvas; 35 1/2 inches by 31 inches. The Frick Collection, New York City. Joseph Corsica Jr.
Lorraine Ferrier
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The Frick Collection’s upcoming “Vermeer’s Love Letters” exhibition centers around the last painting Henry Clay Frick acquired before his death: Johannes Vermeer’s “Mistress and Maid.”

The Frick’s painting forms a trio in the exhibition, with two special Vermeer loans: “The Love Letter” from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and “Lady Writing a Letter, With Her Maid” from the National Gallery of Ireland, in Dublin.

Lorraine Ferrier
Lorraine Ferrier
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Lorraine Ferrier writes about fine arts and craftsmanship for The Epoch Times. She focuses on artists and artisans, primarily in North America and Europe, who imbue their works with beauty and traditional values. She's especially interested in giving a voice to the rare and lesser-known arts and crafts, in the hope that we can preserve our traditional art heritage. She lives and writes in a London suburb, in England.