Also known as View of Houses in Delft, this is the only known outdoor scene by Vermeer of this type: a quiet street with only a few figures. The artist has captured the various materials meticulously: the worn bricks of the masonry, the gleam of the leaded windows, the white- plastered wall. The paint is applied thickly in one spot and thinly in another; in some places it is smooth, in others grainy.