Rijksmuseum, Vermeer: already 100 thousand tickets sold. And now free digital experience available

One month after the grand opening of the exhibition, more than 100,000 tickets have already been sold to visit the exhibition dedicated to Johannes Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. That is why the museum has decided to extend opening hours until 10 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays for the duration of the exhibition.

The retrospective will run from February 10 to June 4, 2023, and will bring together the largest number of Vermeer’s paintings on display, with loans from around the world. Among the masterpieces featured are The Girl with the Pearl Earring (Mauritshuis, The Hague), The Geographer (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main), Woman Writing a Letter in the Presence of Her Maid (The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin), Weighing Woman with Pearls or Woman with Scales (The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC), The Glass of Wine (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin), Lute Player (Metropolitan Museum, NYC), The Lacemaker (Louvre, Paris), and Woman Reading a Letter in Front of a Window, recently restored by the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden. The Rijksmuseum itself also has four Vermeer masterpieces that will be added to the exhibition: the Milkmaid, the Street, Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, and Love Letter.

In parallel, the Rijksmuseum has decided to make the digital experience Closer to Johannes Vermeer available free of charge to all lovers of the Dutch seventeenth-century master. Stephen Fry and Joy Delima guide online visitors to discover the artist’s production and life. Using state-of-the-art technology, for the first time, visitors will be able to zoom in on their favorite paintings, viewing the smallest details in detail, thanks to ultra-high-resolution photographs of some of Vermeer’s paintings. This interactive journey includes all twenty-eight Vermeer paintings that will be featured in the Rijksmuseum exhibition plus the nine additional works attributed to the artist. Available in English (narrated by Stephen Fry) and Dutch (narrated by Joy Delima), the experience also offers a rare opportunity to compare recurring motifs in Vermeer’s paintings: pearls, yellow robes, curtains, maps, use of ultramarine blue, and so on.

Closer to Johannes Vermeer is available at this link www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/johannes-vermeer

Image: Jan Vermeer, The Milkmaid (c. 1660; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum)

Rijksmuseum, Vermeer: already 100 thousand tickets sold. And now free digital experience available

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