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The Delft school is a category of mid-17th-century Dutch Golden Age painting named after the city of its centre, Delft. It is best known for genre painting —images of domestic life, views of households, church interiors, courtyards, squares and the streets of that city.
Liedtke served as a curator of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for thirty-five years. Liedtke specialized in the paintings of Vermeer and the Delft School. The 2001 Liedtke-curated show, "Vermeer and the Delft School" was said to be the most popular art exhibition that year, attracting 555,000 visitors during its three ...
Grijzenhout, F., and Veen, Henk, The Golden Age of Dutch Painting in Historical Perspective, 1999, Cambridge University Press; Hochstrasser, Julie, Still Life and Trade in the Dutch Golden Age, 2007, Yale University Press; Liedtke, Walter A. (2001). Vermeer and the Delft School. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-0-87099-973-4.
National Galleries of Scotland web page on the painting; Essential Vermeer website pages on the painting; Vermeercentrum, housed at the site of the former St. Lucas Guild in Delft. Vermeer and The Delft School, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on the painting (see index)
The work contains the conventions of genre painting of the Delft School developed by Pieter de Hooch in the late 1650s. It contains figures situated in a brightly lit and spacious interior, while its architectural space is highly defined. The figures are set in the middle ground rather than the more usual foreground. [2]
View of Delft (Dutch: Zicht op Delft) is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, painted c. 1659–1661. The painting of the Dutch artist's hometown is among his best known. [ 1 ] It is one of three known paintings of Delft by Vermeer, along with The Little Street and the lost painting House Standing in Delft , [ 2 ] and his only cityscape. [ 3 ]
Delft School may refer to: Delft School (painting), school in 17th century Dutch painting; Delft School (architecture), school in 20th century Dutch architecture;
The painting was among the large collection of Vermeer works sold on May 16, 1696, from the estate of Jacob Dissius (1653–1695). It is widely believed the collection was originally owned by Dissius' father-in-law, Pieter Claesz van Ruijven of Delft as Vermeer's major patron, then passed down to Ruijven's daughter (1655–1682), who would have left it to Dissius.