High Museum of American Art

Atlanta – September 21

The High Museum of Art in collaboration with the Mauritshuis, The Hague, will present a major exhibition of Dutch masterworks in 2013, including Johannes Vermeer’s iconic “Girl with a Pearl Earring,” which has not been on view in the United States for more than 15 years and has never been seen in the Southeast. Drawn from the Mauritshuis’s collection, “Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis” will highlight the artistic genius of  Dutch Golden Age painters, including Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals and  Jan Steen,  through the presentation of more than 35 exceptional paintings.

“Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis” will showcase such masters as Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Frans Hals,  Jan Steen, Jacob and Salomon van Ruysdael, Paulus Potter, Meindert Hobbema and Jan van Goyen. Through landscapes and portraits, the exhibition will explore the idea that Dutch artists more readily embraced genre paintings of secular subjects than their southern European contemporaries and focused on capturing commonplace scenes of daily life. Dutch artists not only recorded representations of the domestic interior, still lifes and revelrous crowds, but often imbued these scenes with moral undertones and humorous, sarcastic wit.

Key paintings featured in the exhibition include:

• Johannes Vermeer, “Girl with a Pearl Earring”
• Carel Fabritius, “Goldfinch”
• Rembrandt van Rijn, “‘Tronie’ of a Man with a Feathered Beret”
• Jan Steen, “The Way You Hear It, Is The Way You Sing It”
• Jacob van Ruisdael, “View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds”

For more information email mmcleod@clevelandstatecc.edu