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View of Delft

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View of Delft is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, painted around 1659 to 1661 and among his best known works. It is one of three known paintings of Delft by Vermeer, along with The Little Street and the lost House Standing in Delft, and his only cityscape. It has been held in the Dutch Royal Cabinet of Paintings at the Mauritshuis in The Hague since the collection's establishment in 1822.

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Partially Attested
Year Created
1661 1
source gives a range, painted c. 1659-1661, latest year of the range used as the value
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Mauritshuis, The Hague 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. Wikipedia: View of Delft
  • Lead section, date field
    painted c. 1659-1661
  • Lead section, medium field
    Oil on canvas
  • Lead section, location field
    Mauritshuis, The Hague
  • Genre reference
    View of Delft is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, painted around 1659 to 1661 and among his best known works.
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