New stop on Delft tourist trail after Vermeer’s Little Street identified | Art and design | The Guardian
▻http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/26/new-stop-on-delft-tourist-trail-after-vermeers-little-street-identified
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All that, however, has now changed. After two years of painstaking detective work, a Dutch art historian has identified the spot as the location of Vermeer’s Little Street, resolving a century-old mystery. “The whole street’s been talking about it,” said Lenie Gerbrands, whose house stands beside the spot where Vermeer sat four centuries ago, painting his aunt’s house across the water. “It’s a good piece of news to have in these difficult times. It’ll give the area a lift.”