Going Dutch: Johannes Vermeer’s largest-ever retrospective

Des O'Sullivan checks out Vermeer's largest-ever retrospective 

The Geographer, Stadel Museum, Frankfurt.

THIS is the year for Vermeer. Excitement is building in advance of the opening on February 10 of the Rijksmuseum exhibition in Amsterdam which has been bolstered by loans from the US, Europe and Japan to become the largest Vermeer show ever. 

At least 27 out of his very small oeuvre of around three dozen paintings loaned from the most prestigious museums in the world will be on display.