The Lacemaker (after Vermeer)
Salvador Dalí Spanish
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.
This artwork is meant to be viewed from right to left. Scroll left to view more.