The panel is a recycled wood panel rather than canvas, atypical for Vermeer, and its attribution to him has been disputed by scholars on both sides; the National Gallery of Art carried out its own technical study to revisit the question.
What would resolve this Further technical and connoisseurship study (pigment analysis, dendrochronology of the panel, comparative brushwork study) reaching durable scholarly consensus on authorship.
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