Jan Vermeer
c. 1670
Art Gallery of Wynn, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
(Once property of the late Baron Frédéric Rolin. It was sold July 7, 2004 to Steve Wynn. .
During the initial decades following its first publication in 1904, the picture was universally accepted and published as an autograph work by Vermeer. Then, following the dramatic events of the affair of the Van Meegeren forgeries of Vermeer, De Vries, the Director of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and the recognized leading scholar on Vermeer, expressed doubts about the authenticity of the picture.
After more than 10 years of extensive research by a team of leading scholars, the painting has now been proposed as a secure addition to Vermeer's limited oeuvre. Not all scholars, however, agree.
2007-02-15
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