‘Startling Discoveries’: An Underpainting Was Found Beneath Vermeer ‘Milkmaid’ Painting

Image caption: Johannes Vermeer’s The Milkmaid, 1657–58, examined with a Macro-XRPD scanner. Image courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Article by Francesca Aton. ARTnews – September 8, 2022.

Advanced scanning technology has revealed two objects that were later painted over in Johannes Vermeer’s 1657–58 painting The Milkmaid, providing new insight into the Dutch painter’s artistic process. These “startling discoveries” were announced Thursday at a press conference at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which is planning a major Vermeer exhibition next year. […]

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