Secreted away beneath layers of paint in Johannes Vermeer’s “A Maid Asleep” (ca. 1657) sits a faceless man. The figure, now buried by rich, dark pigments in the top-right corner, was first detected in ...
Left: Half-restored version of Vermeer's "Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window" / Right: Unrestored version © Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden/Wolfgang Kreische ...