The Lacemaker (after Vermeer)

1955

Not on view

When Johannes Vermeer’s seventeenth-century Dutch painting “The Lacemaker” was in the conservation lab of the Musée du Louvre in 1954, Salvador Dalí began this painting, a meticulous copy of the original. Correspondence between Robert Lehman and Dalí suggests that the collector commissioned Dali’s copy of Vermeer’s masterpiece.

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Title: The Lacemaker (after Vermeer)
Artist: Salvador Dalí (Spanish, Figueres 1904–1989 Figueres)
Date: 1955
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 9 1/4 × 7 3/4 in. (23.5 × 19.7 cm)
Framed: 15 × 13 5/8 in. (38.1 × 34.6 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Object Number: 1975.1.232
Rights and Reproduction: © 2026 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection

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