A View of Houses in Delft

A second Delft cityscape, now lost. The 1696 Dissius catalogue lists two townscapes close together: lot 32, “a view of a house standing in Delft,” and lot 33, “a view of some houses.” Only one of these can be the surviving Little Street in the Rijksmuseum, leaving the other a lost work. It would have been painted in the same years as the Little Street and the View of Delft, the brief period in which Vermeer turned his attention to the streets and skyline of his city.