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Vermeer and the Delft School

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		Plaque with a Landscape, ca. 1660–75 Delft Factory Tin-glazed earthenware; 10 3/4 x 9 5/8 in. (26 x 24.2 cm) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Description

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This Italianate scene was orginally framed (the nail hole was drilled at a later date). The composition was probably adopted from a painting by the Delft landscapist Pieter Groenewegen (ca. 1600–1658?), as were the landscapes on the wall and on the lid of the instrument in Vermeer's Young Woman Standing at a Virginal of about 1670–72.

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