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Vermeer and the Delft School
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Description
Like one of Vermeer's beautiful women in the bloom of youth, Van der Ast's bouquet of delicate flowers is set in an intimate corner by a window. The still-life painter died the year Vermeer began to paint comparable interiors. Common sources—for example, palace views by Bartholomeus van Bassen—and interests shared with other Delft painters of the 1650s account for the similarities. In its scale and refinement, this panel could be considered Van der Ast's own Art of Painting, the celebrated work by Vermeer: a showpiece in which painterly patterns emulate nature's own.
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