Louvre agrees to lend The Lacemaker, one of its most important paintings, to Fitzwilliam in Cambridge ...

The Rijksmuseum is understood to have a promise of a loan of Vermeer’s ‘The Lacemaker’ for a blockbuster exhibition starting in February next year. Earlier this week, the museum announced that 27 of ...

We see a young girl, crafting lace with a skill that only comes with practice. Vermeer painted her in a way that draws you in. We are delighted that The Lacemaker is on show at the Vermeer exhibition.

It was, Timothy Potts admits, an audacious request to the Louvre: that it lend what is arguably its second most important painting to the Fitzwilliam museum in Cambridge. But then, "what you don't ask ...