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Arts Journal's Culture Grrl Lee Rosenbaum noticed a lovely "interloper" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's old masters gallery. Next to Johannes Vermeer's "Young Woman With a Water Pitcher" is a small painting, once owned by Las Vegas developer Steve Wynn (and thankfully not elbowed by him). Rosenbaum reports that the painting, "Young Woman Seated at the Virginals" (pictured), which had previously been called by some as a "near Vermeer," is now accepted as a Vermeer by a Met curator. Wynn, who paid $30 million for the painting, "Young Woman Seated At The Virginals" (pictured), in 2004, sold it last fall; it is now owned by the Leiden Gallery. The Met tells Rosenbaum the painting will be on display until June.