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Vermeer's Love Letters

18 June - 8 September 2025

Vermeer’s Love Letters

Exhibition: 18 June - 8 September 2025

To inaugurate the Frickā€™s new first-floor special exhibition galleries, three works by Vermeer will be presented from June 18 through September 8, 2025. The unprecedented installation of paintings united in Vermeerā€™s Love Letters pairs the Frickā€™s Mistress and Maid with special loans of the Rijksmuseumā€™s Love Letter and the National Gallery of Irelandā€™s Woman Writing a Letter, with Her Maid. Their presentation together in a single gallery for the first time offers visitors an opportunity to consider Vermeerā€™s treatment of the theme of letters as well as his depiction of women of different social classes. The exhibition is curated by Dr. Robert Fucci, lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, who will author a catalogue focused on the three works and their broader themes in seventeenth-century Dutch art.

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), Mistress and Maid, ca. 1667 Frick Collection, New York

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675), Mistress and Maid, ca. 1667
Frick Collection, New York

 


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