As a sort of salute to your piece I went up to the Met today to check
out the Vermeer's. I'd thought there was a similar painting. So I had
a look at this one:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/verm/hob_1979.396.1.htm
But the galleries the Vermeer's usually hang in are under construction
and they had all the Flemish paintings in a different place. This lead
to the curious experience of seeing all the museum's Rembrandts hanging
on a temporary wall colored the most saturated possible industrial blue.
Showed off the Rembrandt's subtle play of burnt sienna tones
wonderfully...not
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