Dutch Golden Age shines through at the Louvre

The Louvre is going Dutch this spring with the reopening of its Northern European painting galleries and not one, but three exhibitions devoted to the art of Hollands 17th-century Golden Age.
A major survey, Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting, has been in the making for almost five years, says the curator Blaise Ducos. It is a co-production with the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where the show will travel later this year. Twelve o