A hundred years ago the houses joined this gate.

It took us a walk of twenty minutes across the meadows to arrive at this deserted spot." I did not explore the town, and therefore I cannot speak with any authority of its possessions; but I saw enough to realise what a past it must have had.
At Enkhuisen was born Paul Potter, who painted the famous picture of the bull in the Mauritshuis at The Hague.

The year 1625 saw his birth; and it was only twenty-nine years later that he died.

While admiring Potter's technical powers, I can imagine few nervous trials more exacting than having to live with his bull intimately in one's room.

This only serves to show how temperamental a matter is art criticism, for on each occasion that I have been to the Mauritshuis the bull has had a ring of mute or throbbing worshippers, while Vermeer's "View of Delft" was without a devotee.