A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals to the texture of the wall are typical of Vermeer, while the handling of the pearls in the woman's hair recalls the threads spilling from the cushion in the "Lacemaker". A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals is a painting generally attributed to Johannes Vermeer, though this was for a long time widely questioned. A series of technical examinations from 1993 onwards confirmed the attribution. It is thought to date from c.1670 and is now in part of the Leiden Collection in New York. It should not be confused with "Young Woman Seated
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