Vermeer’s ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ will head to Japan this summer in rare loan
The Art Newspaper••entertainment
Key Points:
- The Mauritshuis museum announced it will lend Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" to the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka this summer due to the Mauritshuis's closure for building alterations from August 24 to September 20.
- The painting, one of only 37 known works by Vermeer and the Mauritshuis's star exhibit, rarely travels internationally, with its last world tour occurring between 2012 and 2014; it only briefly appeared in Amsterdam in 2023.
- The Osaka exhibition will be organized in partnership with the Asahi Shimbun, a major Japanese media organization that also sponsored the 2012-14 tour, marking a four-year collaboration with the Mauritsh
