You will see a reproduction in black and white on the opposite page; but how wide a gulf between the picture and the process block.

The jacket, for example, is the most lovely cool blue imaginable.
This picture, apart from its beauty, is interesting as an illustration of the innovating courage of Vermeer.

Who else at that date would have placed the woman's head against a map almost its own colour?
Many persons think that such daring began with Whistler.

It is, however, Terburg who most often suggests Whistler.

Vermeer had, I think, a rarer distinction than Terburg.