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This is a delightful story telling the journey of a painting presumably painted by the Dutch master Vermeer. It tells it's journey in reverse starting with it's present day owner who is a Math professor in Philadelphia and working it's way back to it's origins in The Netherlands where the daughter of the painter must relinquish her hold on it when her circumstances are dire.
We learn the stories of each person or family who has acquired the painting, their attachment to it and eventually how or ...more
We learn the stories of each person or family who has acquired the painting, their attachment to it and eventually how or ...more
Cornelius, an old mathematics professor, invites an art professor to drop by to see a wonderful unsigned painting that had been looted by his deceased father during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He claims that the gorgeous painting is a Vermeer, and the art professor wonders why it is unknown and has no papers proving its authenticity. Cornelius is consumed with guilt concerning the actions of his Nazi father every time he looks at the painting, but he is also overwhelmed with its be
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