The National Gallery of Art just discovered that one of its four Vermeer paintings wasn't actually painted by Vermeer:
Scientists and historians at the National Gallery of Art have deduced that a painting attributed to Johannes Vermeer, one of four in the museum’s collection, wasn’t painted by the Dutch master after all., a small study of a figure holding a recorder, was instead likely made by someone who studied under Vermeer or otherwise worked closely with him.
The exhibit is the culmination of an investigation that was only possible due to the global pandemic, which caused the National Gallery to close from March 2020 to May 2021. Vermeer’s paintings are simply too popular to take off the walls for lengthy study. Normally, the four works draw crowds on the main floor of the West Building; indeed, even in the short time they were removed from their permanent place to join this special exhibition, viewers noticed their absence.
The research team at the National Gallery—seven curators, conservators, and image scientists—employed several techniques to survey Vermeer’s layering and sequencing. Using a tactic called false-color infrared reflectance imaging, for example, the team could find evidence of broader, heavier brushstrokes of lead white underneath the soft glow of a wall. And with XRF spectroscopy, they could map out the distribution of elements such as copper in Vermeer’s work.
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