Thoughts On Vermeer's "Woman In Blue Reading A Letter" on Loan at the Getty Museum
by Gregg Chadwick Johannes Vermeer Woman In Blue Reading A Letter ( Brieflezende vrouw ) 18 5/16" x 15 3/8" oil on canvas 1663-64 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest) "It seems appropriate that a gesture so paradigmatic of Vermeer's art, should appear concerned with the weighing and balancing of light itself." - Edward Snow Currently on view at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, is Vermeer's haunting painting Woman In Blue Reading A Letter. On loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, the Getty is the artwork's last stop on a world tour before returning to the Netherlands for the reopening of the Rijksmuseum on April 13, 2013. The painting is on view at the Getty through Sunday, March 31, 2013. The Getty has thoughtfully installed Woman in Blue Reading a Letter amidst paintings by Vermeer's Dutch contemporaries. On a recent visit to see the work at the Getty...