Guests are nonetheless packing in to the Vermeer blockbuster on the Rijksmuseum which runs till 4 June (get a ticket in the event you can- good luck). A TAN correspondent lucky sufficient to bag entry to the present final week was naturally stunned by the quite a few masterpieces on show (greater than 20). However there have been nonetheless collective gasps from the gang of primarily higher middle-class Brits on discovering that Vermeer’s most well-known work, The Lady with a Pearl Earring (round 1665), had gone again residence to the Mauritshuis in The Hague. The museum states clearly on-line and within the exhibition that the crowdpleasing portray was because of be returned on 30 March (it may also be explored within the museum’s informative on-line tour of the present). The portray was all the time going to be on present for eight weeks, the director of the Mauritshuis, Martine Gosselink, instructed Dutch Information. “We’ve mentioned that from the beginning and the Rijksmuseum knew as properly,” she mentioned. However that received’t cease the hordes of disgruntled Vermeer devotees from griping (maybe shopping for a postcard is the reply).
