Little Street. The Little Street is a painting by the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer, executed c. 1657-58.
It is exhibited at the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, and signed, below the window in the lower left-hand corner, I V MEER. The painting is made in oil on canvas, and it is a relatively small painting, being 54.3 centimetres high by 44.0 centimetres wide.
The painting, showing a quiet street, depicts a typical aspect of the life in a Dutch Golden Age town. It is one of only three Vermeer paintings of views of Delft, the others being View of Delft and the now lost House Standing in Delft.
This painting is considered to be an important work of the Dutch master. Straight angles alternate with the triangle of the house and of the sky giving the composition a certain vitality.
The walls, stones and brickwork are painted in a thicker paint layer, such that it makes them almost palpable. Vermeer achieved the realistic depiction of the surfaces with the masterful application of a relatively limited number of pigments. He employed red ochre and madder lake for the reddish-brown brick wall, the blue in the sky contains lead white and natural ultramarine. The green shutters and foliage are painted with azurite mixed with lead-tin-yellow. While generally agreed to depict a contemporary street scene in 17th-century Delft, where Vermeer lived and worked, the exact location of the scene Vermeer painted has
It is exhibited at the Rijksmuseum of Amsterdam, and signed, below the window in the lower left-hand corner, I V MEER. The painting is made in oil on canvas, and it is a relatively small painting, being 54.3 centimetres high by 44.0 centimetres wide.
The painting, showing a quiet street, depicts a typical aspect of the life in a Dutch Golden Age town. It is one of only three Vermeer paintings of views of Delft, the others being View of Delft and the now lost House Standing in Delft.
This painting is considered to be an important work of the Dutch master. Straight angles alternate with the triangle of the house and of the sky giving the composition a certain vitality.
The walls, stones and brickwork are painted in a thicker paint layer, such that it makes them almost palpable. Vermeer achieved the realistic depiction of the surfaces with the masterful application of a relatively limited number of pigments. He employed red ochre and madder lake for the reddish-brown brick wall, the blue in the sky contains lead white and natural ultramarine. The green shutters and foliage are painted with azurite mixed with lead-tin-yellow. While generally agreed to depict a contemporary street scene in 17th-century Delft, where Vermeer lived and worked, the exact location of the scene Vermeer painted has
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