Thursday, February 5, 2015

Masterpieces from New York's Frick on show at Mauritshuis

In this photo taken Tuesday Feb. 3, 2015 during a press preview, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres' portrait of the doe-eyed Comtesse d'Haussonville is seen during the exhibition titled The Frick Collection - Art Treasures from New York that opened Thursday and runs until May 10th at Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, Netherlands. How do you say "Thank you" to a museum that loaned you Johannes Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" and Carel Fabritius's "Goldfinch" ? New York's Frick Collection is showing its gratitude to the Mauritshuis by sending over a trove of masterpieces of its own for the first major exhibition since the intimate Hague museum's renovation. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — How do you say "thank you" to a museum that loaned you Johannes Vermeer's "Girl With a Pearl Earring" and Carel Fabritius' "The Goldfinch" for a blockbuster exhibition?








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