The music lesson in book reviews

author: Katharine Weber

The book is about politics, art theft, art forgery, two people who really do NOT know each other despite having an intense relationship.

Yet, oddly, the painting at the center of this lovely novel is NOT Vermeer's Music Lesson although the author keeps saying it is. That painting is very different from what is described in the book. You'd think that wouldn't be an issue. I did enjoy the small book, but the fact that the painting described is not the painting with that name makes me uncomfortable in the end.

I recently saw a movie about The Music Lesson and how a man "proved" it had been done with some form of optics by recreating it.