Girl in Hyacinth Blue

By: Susan Vreeland

Published October 1st 2000 by Penguin Books (first published 1999)

Category: Arts

Pages: 242 pages

ISBN: 9780140296280

Description:
A professor invites a colleague from the art department to his home to view a painting he has kept secret for decades in Susan Vreeland's powerful historical novel, Girl in Hyacinth Blue. The professor swears it's a Vermeer -- but why exactly has he kept it hidden so long? The reasons unfold in a gripping sequence of stories that trace ownership of the work back to Amsterdam during World War II and still further to the moment of the painting's inception.