Double-Dutch Duet at the de Young

Posted On: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 9:00am | Posted By: Kevin Koerner
Topics: Community Information | Tags: de Young Museum, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Rembrandt, Vermeer | Neighborhood: Lower Pacific Heights, San Francisco: Profile and Properties for Sale,

Who was that girl with the famous pearl earring that so epitomized the characteristic Vermeer point of light?  We’ll never know since the Dutch master painted her four hundred years ago.  Only a few dozen Vermeers still exist today, but they still set the gold standard for capturing light in paint, and you can see many of them right now at the de Young Museum inside Golden Gate Park through mid-summer.  The collection is on loan from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis.  While there, don’t miss the companion Rembrandt exhibit, featuring over two hundred drawings and paintings by the famous artist and his 17th Century contemporaries in the Netherlands.  For ticket information, please visit http://deyoung.famsf.org/deyoung/exhibitions/rembrandt-s-century.


Sources:  (content) de Young Fine Arts Museum, Bay Area Reporter, Edge on the Net, Sura Wood; (photo)de Young; (video) National Gallery of Art & YouTube

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Kevin Koerner

Kevin Koerner has been a San Francisco Real Estate Agent since 2001.
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