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End Notes
​The Sphinx of Delft: the demise and rediscovery of Jan Vermeer

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[1] 1632 – 1675

[2] Adriaan E Waiboer et al, Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (Exh Cat), Yale University Press, New Haven 2017 at 87
[3] Jane Jelley, Traces of Vermeer, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2017 at 226
[4] Renzo Villa, Vermeer: The Complete Works, Silvana Editoriale, Milan 2012 at 7; Jelley, op cit at 13
[5] Villa, op cit at 7
[6] Jelley, op cit at 15
[7] Pierre Cabanne, Vermeer, Editions Terrail, Paris 2004 (transl John Tittensor) at 235
[8] His friend, the wealthy collector Pieter van Ruijven
[9] One in Haarlem, the other in Utrecht.
[10] Hans Koningsberger, The World of Vermeer 1632-1675, Time-Life International (Nederland), 1967 at 170
[11] Catherine Hickey, 7 May 2019 at https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/hidden-cupid-resurfaces-in-one-of-vermeer-s-best-known-works  
[12] Koningsberger, op cit at 169. Some works, such as Girl with a Flute, are disputed
[13] Grand Theatre of Dutch Painters and Women Artists
[14] Waiboer, op cit at at 3
[15] Husband of the artist Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun
[16] Cabanne, op cit at 243
[17] Cabanne, op cit at 243
[18] Villa, op cit at 8
[19] Cabanne, op cit at 247
[19A] Letter to Emile Bernard 29/7/1888
[20] Villa, op cit at 10
[21] Koningsberger, op cit at 125
[22] Koningsberger, op cit at 171
[23] Thomas Hoving, False Impressions: The Hunt for Big-time Art Fakes, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1996 at 175
[24] One notable exception was John Huizinga, who said that the work was “lacking in soul and only playing with colours”
[25] Equivalent to about $5 million today
[26] Hoving, op cit at 176
[27] Hoving, op cit at 178
[28] David Hockney, Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters, 2001; David Steadman: Vermeer’s Camera: Uncovering the Truth behind the Masterpieces, 2001; Tim Jenison, Tim’s Vermeer (documentary film) 2013

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