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View of Delft
Johannes Vermeer
Vermeer's only surviving townscape, and among the most tightly restricted loans in the Netherlands.
- Artist
- Johannes Vermeer
- Date
- c. 1660–1661
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 96.5 × 115.7 cm
- Location
- Mauritshuis, The Hague
History
What the record shows
The painting shows Delft from the south across the Schie, with light applied in thick beads on the boats and roofs.
The Mauritshuis lends it exceptionally rarely; when it moves, it travels in a sealed, monitored case by road.
Provenance
Chain of ownership
- 01Delft sale, 1696
- 02Stadholder collections, The Hague
- 03Purchased for the Mauritshuis, 1822
