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 Createdsource gives a range, painted c. 1659-1661, latest year of the range used as the value Medium
Medium (category) Connections
In Genre
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.
In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: The Hague, located there.
Sources
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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