The invitation is casual, for one professor to drop by the house of another. The art professor obliges, and when he arrives he is shown a painting ... a strikingly beautiful painting that the owner claims is a Vermeer. But why, asks the art professor, is the painting unknown? In Susan Vreeland's gentle and beautiful new book, the ownership of the painting is traced back to the very moment of its inspiration, and as it moves through each owner's hands, what was long hidden or forgotten or repressed quietly surfaces.
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The invitation is casual, for one professor to drop by the house of another. The art professor obliges, and when he arrives he is shown a painting ... a strikingly beautiful painting that the owner claims is a Vermeer. But why, asks the art professor, is the painting unknown? In Susan Vreeland's gentle and beautiful new book, the ownership of the painting is traced back to the very moment of its inspiration, and as it moves through each owner's hands, what was long hidden or forgotten or repressed quietly surfaces.
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