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Vermeer A Life Lost and Found MERRIAM-WEBSTER thick walls and locked doorsBy: Andrew Graham Dixon Published by W. W. Norton, Incorporated, 2026 04 07 One spring day in 1683, a notary's clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled on one of the wonders of the seventeenth century world: twenty paintings by Johannes Vermeer. How had this one Dutchwoman come to possess the majority of the master's work? And why have these images among the most beautiful, even sublime, in the history of