An old brick house in Delft fills the canvas. A woman sews in the open doorway, two children kneel on the pavement, and down a side passage a maid bends over a barrel. It is one of only three views of his town Vermeer is known to have painted. Archival research in 2015 placed it on the Vlamingstraat, where the house belonged to his aunt.
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Vermeer signed it "I V MEER" below the window at lower left. The whitewashed walls and patched brickwork are built up in thick paint you can almost feel.
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