USA Africa Dialogue Series - de Young Museum: San Francisco: Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis

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If you're in San Francisco, please don't miss the opportunity to view "Girl With a Pearl Earring" by Johannes Vermeer.  I  viewed the Girl With a Pearl Earring and Rembrandt's Century a week ago @ de Young Museum, and it was totally surreal...Funmi

Girl with a Pearl Earring: Dutch Paintings from the Mauritshuis

HERBST EXHIBITION GALLERIES

January 26, 2013 - June 2, 2013

The de Young will be the first venue in the American tour of paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague. This jewel box of a museum, housing one of the world's most prestigious collections of Dutch Golden Age paintings, has not lent a large body of works from its holdings in nearly 30 years. An extensive two-year renovation makes this extraordinary opportunity possible.

The exhibition features 35 paintings representing the range of subject matter and technique characteristic of 17th-century painting in the Dutch Republic. Among the works traveling to the United States is the Mauritshius' celebrated masterpiece Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer and the enchanting The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius. The painting Vase of Flowers by the gifted Rachel Ruysch, one of the few female painters of the Dutch Golden Age, is being restored especially for the American tour.

Girl with a Pearl Earring is on view at the de Young Museum from January 26–June 2, 2013.

The de Young Museum is located at 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. For driving directions, maps, and information about public transportation and parking, visit the Getting to the de Young page.

Hours

Tuesday–Sunday	9:30 am–5:15 pm; last exhibition entry at 4:30 pm
Friday (starting March 29)	9:30 am–8:45 pm; last exhibition entry at 7:30 pm
Monday	Closed

Funmi Tofowomo Okelola
--The art of living and impermanence.