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View of Houses in Delft, Known as ‘The Little Street’
Also titled Gezicht op huizen in Delft, bekend als ‘Het straatje’
Johannes Vermeer (Delft, 1632–1675)
c. 1658
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 54.3 cm x width 44 cm x depth 9 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of H.W.A. Deterding, London
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This is an unusual painting in Vermeer’s oeuvre, and remarkable for its time as a portrait of ordinary houses. The composition is as exciting as it is balanced. The old walls with their bricks, whitewash, and cracks are almost tangible. The location is Vlamingstraat 40–42 in Delft. Vermeer’s aunt Ariaentgen Claes lived in the house at the right, with her children, from around 1645 until her death in 1670.
