The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren

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April 22, 2009

Jonathan Lopez The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han van Meegeren Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008. 352 pp. Cloth $26.00 (9780151013418)

Larry Silver

CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.39

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In 2001 the Metropolitan Museum of Art offered as the very last work in its large, enormously popular exhibition Vermeer and the Delft School a small painting of a young woman seated at a virginal (a keyboard instrument of the seventeenth century). Presented without fanfare by curator Walter Liedtke and not included in the catalogue, this picture was familiar to specialist scholars: as the final image in Lawrence Gowing’s seminal 1952 monograph on Vermeer, the...