Focus on View of Delft and explain the Legacy.
Marcel Proust greatly admired Vermeer, and particularly this painting. The painting features in his novel In Search of Lost Time, in which the character Bergotte before dying had taken inspiration from Vermeer's technique: "That's how I ought to have written ... My last books are too dry, I ought to have ... made my language precious in itself, like this little patch of yellow wall ('petit pan de mur jaune')".  On 1 May 1921, in a letter to his friend Jean-Louis Vaudoyer, Proust mentioned how he felt when he saw the work for the first time:Ever since I saw the View of Delft in the museum in The Hague, I have known that I had seen the most beautiful painting in the world.
In 2011, the painting was featured on gold and silver commemorative coins issued by the Royal Dutch Mint.
Delft The Hague Royal Dutch Mint Dutch Jean-Louis Vaudoyer In Search of Lost Time