This is my copy of the Johannes Vermeer painting known as The Little Street. The original painting, completed around 1658, portrays some typical houses in Vermeer's home city of Delft. A new theory about the original location of these houses was discovered in 2015 after some good detective work by a Dutch historian. We visited Delft in 2019 and took a photo of the place, though little remains to prove whether the theory is correct or not.

This has always been one of my favourite Vermeer paintings because of the intricate and realistic details — especially those bricks! — and its surprisingly modern feel. The original hangs in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

My copy is approximately two thirds the size of the original, which gave me some trouble with the finer details, though I feel like I was able to capture a reasonable approximation of the original and learn a few things. (I deliberately adjusted the palette slightly to compensate for the photographic yellowing in the original, and to tone down the blue-tinge in Vermeer's greens, an apparent side-effect of pigments fading at different rates over the centuries.)