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Another suggest painting, along with the “View of Delft” that
Vermeer most likely used camera obscura on was “Little
Street”. Many locations for this image have been proposed,
but the most suited location was the Vlamingstraat.
Vlamingstraat was a narrow street that runs next to a canal
in the centre of Delft, where Vermeer was born.
The Little Street displays a mix of features, revealing painting
on brick, wood, and glass, trees and sky, and portraying four
figures of two women and two children.
Vermeer supposedly sits in front of Old Woman’s and Old
Man's Almshouse, which was directly across the street from
Vermeer's home. The fact that the Delft almshouse was torn
down in 1661 can be used to support the date assigned to
this picture.
A curator of 17th century paintings at the Rijksmuseum,
Pieter Roelofs explains “The answer to the question as to the
location of Vermeer’s The Little Street is of great significance,
both for the way that we look at this one painting by
Vermeer and for our image of Vermeer as an artist.”
Johannes Vermeer
The Little Street
1657–1661
Oil on canvas
54.3 x 44 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
iVlamingstraat in Delft, at the
point where the present‐day
numbers 40 and 42 stand.