One of Johannes Vermeer’s most famous paintings, “The Guitar Player,” has gone on show alongside its “twin” in a new exhibition.

“Double Vision: Vermeer,” which opened at London’s Kenwood House on Monday, displays the Dutch master’s original 1672 image of the guitar-playing woman alongside its doppelgänger, “Lady with a Guitar.” In doing so, the new presentation reignites a century-old debate about who painted the latter, which was once thought to be Vermeer’s original.

“’The Guitar Player’ by Vermeer is an exquisite work of art, perfectly capturing a single moment in time. It is one of only 37 known paintings by Vermeer, an artist who specialized in depicting everyday life in domestic interiors,” said a statement from English Heritage, which runs Kenwood House.

“Since the 1920s scholar

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