Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Vermeer's View of Delft

Vermeer's View of Delft

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Original – View of Delft is an oil painting by Johannes Vermeer, painted around 1660–61. It shows the southern aspect of the city on a calm and tranquil day. Typical Vermeer, this uses natural light in such a marvellous way. (Interesting to note that Delft was a little scruffier than this: Vermeer tidied the place up a bit for his picture). The painting was acquired by the Mauritshuis in the Hague in 1822.

Reason

Excellent scan of superb painting

Articles in which this image appears

View of Delft, Johannes Vermeer and seven others

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Johannes Vermeer

• Support as nominator – SchroCat (talk) 07:32, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support – In a letter to a friend, Marcel Proust called it "the most beautiful painting in the world". Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 08:08, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support --Tremonist (talk) 14:21, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 03:25, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support —Jobas (talk) 15:04, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support, quite good job on the shadows in the water. — Cirt (talk) 22:47, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
• Support Good quality. But I think it needs a little improvement (filesize is small, which is 1.16 MB). --Pokéfan95 (talk) 00:12, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support – Yann (talk) 22:05, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
• Support ~ Röbin Liönheart (talk) 16:59, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

Promoted File:Vermeer-view-of-delft.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 11:49, 9 October 2015 (UTC)