The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table reworkings of historic paintings, such as several works inspired by Millet's "Angelus". Images of anthropomorphic furniture as well as crutch-like objects are common in this period of his career. The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used As a Table is a small Surrealist oil painting by Salvador Dalí. Its full title is The Ghost of Vermeer of Delft Which Can Be Used as a Table (Phenomenologic Theory of Furniture-Nutrition). It makes reference to "The Art of Painting" by Johannes Vermeer, a famous seventeenth-century work
The Courtyard of a House in Delft the right is a vine growing over a wooden structure, with an open door through the brick wall to the far right, and a woman dressed in white and blue leading a child down steps to the courtyard. The woman is carrying a dish in her other hand, and a bucket and a broom have been left in the courtyard. Similar figures can also be seen in contempraneous works including "A Woman Drinking with Two Men" (1658), and the woman in black and red can be seen in "A Boy Bringing Bread" (1663). A similar composition with the same doorway