Vermeer had been a respected artist in Delft, but he was almost unknown outside his hometown. A local patron named Pieter van Ruijven had purchased much of his output, which kept Vermeer afloat financially but reduced the possibility of his fame spreading.

The painting of the Dutch artist's hometown is among his best known. [1] It is one of three known paintings of Delft by Vermeer, along with The Little Street and the lost painting House Standing in Delft, [2] and his only cityscape. [3]

Jun 29, 2016 · A discovery about the location of one of Vermeer’s most famous paintings brings a wave of renewed interest in the life of the Dutch master.

Jan 18, 2024 · Between 1660 and 1661, Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer created three paintings of his hometown, Delft. These are The Little Street , the now-lost House Standing in Delft , and View of Delft , which became one of his most recognizable works.

Jan 4, 2016 · The painting "Het Straatje" or "The Little Street" depicts a mundane 17th-century street scene in Vermeer's home of Delft, Netherlands, but with the careful attention to detail and light that...

Jan 13, 2024 · Vermeer lived and worked his entire life in the small quaint town of Delft. He painted probably less than 60 works, of which 36 are known. His paintings’ subtlety was at odds with the Baroque period in which he lived, and he seemed to be just one more painter of everyday life in a provincial town.

Oct 7, 2022 · In his lifetime, Vermeer was not well known outside of his hometown, the walled city of Delft. He only achieved widespread fame for his intimate genre scenes—paintings that depict ordinary people and everyday life—and quiet cityscapes in the late 19th century, several hundred years after his death.

Here we look from the south over the water of the Kolk towards Delft, Vermeer’s hometown. View of Delft is the most famous cityscape of the Dutch Golden Age. But Vermeer’s depiction of the...

A slow and methodical painter, Johannes Vermeer produced relatively few paintings (35 have been attributed to him) but was a modest celebrity in his hometown of Delft during his lifetime. After he died, he fell into obscurity until the 19th century when he was rediscovered by German art historian Gustav Friedrich Waagen and French journalist ...

Vermeer specialized in painting daily life in his hometown Delft. A row of houses past which many people would have walked, a domestic chore, or a woman with a letter – the artist captures our attention with such otherwise mundane tableaux.