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Vermeer's Lacemaker will join the Louvre-Lens for a year

Vermeer's Lacemaker will be exhibited at the Louvre-Lens from Wednesday for a year, announced the Louvre Museum in Paris, which lends this masterpiece to its "little brother".

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Vermeer's Lacemaker will join the Louvre-Lens for a year

Vermeer's Lacemaker will be exhibited at the Louvre-Lens from Wednesday for a year, announced the Louvre Museum in Paris, which lends this masterpiece to its "little brother".

An emblematic painting from the largest museum in the world, The Lacemaker is one of the 28 paintings by the Dutch master which have just been exhibited at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam during an exhibition event which broke attendance records with 650,000 visitors in nearly 4 month. Painted late by Johannes Vermeer, The Lacemaker is one of his key works along with The Milkmaid and The Girl with a Pearl Earring.

It is also one of Vermeer's smallest paintings, representing a popular subject in Delft at the turn of the 1660s-1670s, a young woman busy with her daily work in an interior. A masterpiece of precision, it is built around the very concentrated central model, introduced by a succession of planes, where minute details such as sewing threads appear and other objects disappear in a harmony of blues, browns , yellows and ochres.

The Lacemaker will join the Galerie du temps du Louvre-Lens where 220 works from the Louvre in Paris are permanently exhibited, out of around 3,000 lent in ten years to the Hauts-de-France museum which has welcomed more than 5 million visitors since its opening. opening in 2012.

This exceptional loan is “a very strong symbol of the commitment of the Louvre Museum, deeply committed to openness to art and culture for all. It celebrates the singularity of the museum bet of the Louvre-Lens, an actor in the transformation of the territory and the first place of presentation of the collections of the Louvre outside Paris”, underlined to AFP the president of the Louvre museum, Laurence des Cars. . It "also highlights the European dimension of the Louvre-Lens as if to resonate locally with the art of lace so rooted in this region", she added.

In 2022, the Louvre Museum lent the Crouching Scribe to the Louvre-Lens, a masterpiece from the Department of Egyptian Antiquities.

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