Gallery Views of Vermeers Masterpiece: The Milkmaid

Learn more about the exhibition Vermeer s Masterpiece: The Milkmaid, on view at the Met September 10 November 29, 2009: On the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of Henry Hudson s historic voyage to Manhattan from Amsterdam, the Rijksmuseum has sent The Milkmaid, perhaps the most admired painting by Johannes Vermeer (1632 1675), to the Metropolitan Museum. To celebrate this extraordinary loan, the Met presents Vermee