Special Envoy to Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Schools, colleges, high schools, businesses or even residents of streets bearing his name: for the opening to the public last Thursday, 400 Dutch people linked to Vermeer were invited free of charge to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to admire the retrospective dedicated to the painter.
What calm the impatience of a country for which the "Sphinx of Delft" represents, with its elder by a quarter of a century Rembrandt, the apogee?
Nothing less sure.
Because the day before, it was 200 journalists duly accredited for several weeks and coming from everywhere who pranced at the gates of the course;
the successful novelist, the American Tracy Chevalier
(The Girl with a Pearl Earring)
, having discreetly slipped in among them.
Some also watched the royal family, Scarlett Johansson…
A cost classified as secret-defense
Already 200,000 presales, welcomed the boss of the place, Taco Dibbits, while the reservation site (mandatory for a time slot) appeared saturated and invited to try your luck again later…
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