0:01:23 > 0:01:25WOMAN: Griet. GASPS
0:01:29 > 0:01:30Leave that.
0:01:43 > 0:01:44MAN: Griet?
0:01:44 > 0:01:45GRIET: Father.
0:02:04 > 0:02:05Do you remember?
0:02:05 > 0:02:07You watched me paint it.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27WOMAN: I never thought our family would come to this.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33The food may be strange to your stomach.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40Keep clear of their Catholic prayers.
0:02:40 > 0:02:42Or, if you must be with them when they pray,
0:02:42 > 0:02:44stop your ears.
0:03:55 > 0:03:57GIRL: Give it. SECOND GIRL: I got Cornelia's, too.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59THIRD GIRL: Give it back.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01FIRST GIRL: Stop it.
0:04:02 > 0:04:03SECOND GIRL: You did not get it.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Do you know the house of Master Vermeer?
0:04:06 > 0:04:09Tell Tanneke the new maid is here.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15FOURTH GIRL: I'm gonna pop yours now.
0:04:30 > 0:04:32TANNEKE: You took your time.
0:04:32 > 0:04:33Lose your way, did you?
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Young mistress is out this morning.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41I'm to show you round.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44Water for the table.
0:04:44 > 0:04:46Take water from the canal for laundry.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48It's clean enough this side of town.
0:04:50 > 0:04:53Soda, coppers, boiler,
0:04:53 > 0:04:55sand and soap.
0:04:55 > 0:04:57In cooking kitchen, you're to help serve and clear.
0:04:57 > 0:04:59Buy fish and meat
0:04:59 > 0:05:01when young mistress don't want to.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03You'll take your meals with me and the children.
0:05:06 > 0:05:07That's your sleeping place.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Scour the pots and pans.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15Young mistress and master sleep and have company here.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17You'll get used to it.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25You're to clean in there.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30Not now.
0:05:30 > 0:05:32He's painting.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41FOOTSTEPS
0:07:36 > 0:07:38Good morning, madam.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42Don't speak till you're spoken to.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44Tanneke showed you what needs to be done?
0:07:44 > 0:07:45The laundry and so on?
0:07:45 > 0:07:48Yes, madam.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50This is only a trial.
0:07:50 > 0:07:51Nothing is settled yet.
0:08:04 > 0:08:06PARROT CAWS
0:08:15 > 0:08:16I, um...
0:08:19 > 0:08:20My husband does...
0:08:23 > 0:08:24Go in.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28Go in.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07Disturb nothing.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Leave all just as it is.
0:09:12 > 0:09:15Well, open the shutters. You can't work in the dark.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11You're not the first to forget your manners
0:11:11 > 0:11:12in front of his paintings.
0:11:14 > 0:11:16Tell me, girl,
0:11:16 > 0:11:18do you think it finished?
0:11:20 > 0:11:22Three months.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25Another three before he's satisfied, no doubt.
0:11:27 > 0:11:28Well, get along, girl.
0:11:28 > 0:11:30You're not paid to stand gawping all day.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39MAN: Good to see you. TANNEKE: Are you well?
0:11:39 > 0:11:41Yeah.
0:11:43 > 0:11:45WOMAN: I only want trotters.
0:11:45 > 0:11:47GIRL: Can't we go? Here's my man.
0:11:47 > 0:11:50Paul, this is Griet, the new maid.
0:11:50 > 0:11:52She'll fetch the meat now.
0:11:52 > 0:11:54So, Griet, what takes your fancy?
0:11:54 > 0:11:57Nothing's too good for this family.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59An ox tongue and a dozen chops.
0:11:59 > 0:12:02Pieter! Chops!
0:12:02 > 0:12:04In the book? Again?
0:12:09 > 0:12:10There you are.
0:12:17 > 0:12:19This meat's not fresh.
0:12:22 > 0:12:25The mistress won't like it.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28Pieter!
0:12:31 > 0:12:32Get the parcel on the cart.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52That's better.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54We'll see you again, Griet.
0:12:54 > 0:12:56Yes.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06WOMAN: No! Wait!
0:13:06 > 0:13:08MAN: I'll take that.
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Make way, now.
0:13:14 > 0:13:16What is it? Bankrupt.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20They've lived next door for as long as I can remember.
0:13:22 > 0:13:25The shame.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27Lost everything.
0:13:29 > 0:13:31Watch out for young mistress.
0:13:31 > 0:13:33She hates money troubles.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37She'll turn spiteful at this, you mark my words.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44MISTRESS VERMEER: The last time you said it was done,
0:13:44 > 0:13:46you kept it another six months.
0:13:46 > 0:13:47MASTER VERMEER: It will be done soon.
0:13:47 > 0:13:50Oh, yes, soon. But when is soon?
0:13:50 > 0:13:52Next month? Next year?
0:13:52 > 0:13:54It's all the same to you, I suppose,
0:13:54 > 0:13:56if your children starve, and your wife is dressed in rags.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58When you sit up there and suck at your paintbrush...
0:13:58 > 0:14:00You're being ridiculous. I'm going out.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02No, Jan! Don't you dare leave!
0:14:06 > 0:14:10TANNEKE: One year, it got so bad they had to sell some of her jewels.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14You can imagine how that pleased her.
0:14:14 > 0:14:17She smashed half the china.
0:14:17 > 0:14:19Went to spoil one of his precious paintings.
0:14:21 > 0:14:24Well, he's a temper on him, too, for all he's so quiet.
0:14:27 > 0:14:30She's not set so much as a foot in his studio
0:14:30 > 0:14:31from that day to this.
0:14:37 > 0:14:39FOOTSTEPS
0:15:05 > 0:15:07MISTRESS VERMEER GROANS
0:15:18 > 0:15:21There you are. Fetch some water.
0:15:21 > 0:15:22Hail, Mary, Mother of God,
0:15:22 > 0:15:25pray for us sinners now...
0:15:25 > 0:15:27Six babies. Why does she have to make such a racket?
0:15:27 > 0:15:30WOMAN: Get on with the work. Push!
0:15:33 > 0:15:35I need more rags, girl.
0:15:35 > 0:15:38More rags.
0:15:39 > 0:15:41MISTRESS VERMEER GROANS
0:15:43 > 0:15:45WOMAN: Push! Push!
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Good. That's good.
0:15:48 > 0:15:50BABY CRIES
0:15:55 > 0:15:57PRIEST SPEAKS IN LATIN
0:16:05 > 0:16:08TANNEKE: He's lovely. Don't you like him?
0:16:08 > 0:16:10Take this to the house of your master's patron
0:16:10 > 0:16:12Pieter Van Ruijven.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35BOATMAN: Open up, there's a lady coming in.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46So, finished at last?
0:16:48 > 0:16:51"Honoured guest."
0:16:51 > 0:16:52It was the old woman's idea to combine
0:16:52 > 0:16:54the birth feast and the viewing.
0:16:54 > 0:16:56She has a tight fist.
0:16:58 > 0:17:01I won't turn out for small beer and biscuits, tell her.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Me and the brat deserve a proper feast.
0:17:07 > 0:17:11You have very wide eyes.
0:17:11 > 0:17:12What do they call you?
0:17:14 > 0:17:17- Griet. - Griet.
0:17:17 > 0:17:18Griet.
0:17:22 > 0:17:26Your master is a fine painter, Griet.
0:17:26 > 0:17:28The finest in Delft.
0:17:28 > 0:17:30He's painted me.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33Perhaps that will be my epitaph.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Look at that dress.
0:17:42 > 0:17:44You can almost stroke the satin.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47And the wine winking through the glass.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52Can you imagine yourself in such finery, Griet?
0:17:55 > 0:17:57She loved it, you know.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59Lace and satin pressed tight
0:17:59 > 0:18:02against her plump little bubbies.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06The silk, heavy on her thighs.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09The gentlemen watching.
0:18:09 > 0:18:12My God, she was happy.
0:18:12 > 0:18:14She thought she was somebody.
0:18:14 > 0:18:17All dressed up like a lady.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19Green as grass, mind you.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23She only worked there a few months
0:18:23 > 0:18:25before Master Van Ruijven brought her over
0:18:25 > 0:18:28to be painted.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32Got her into that fine, red dress.
0:18:32 > 0:18:34Poured wine down her like he was forcing a goose.
0:18:34 > 0:18:36That dress can't have stayed on long.
0:18:36 > 0:18:40She was carrying his by-blow before the paint was dry.
0:18:44 > 0:18:48He thinks we don't know how to celebrate a birth, does he?
0:19:09 > 0:19:11TANNEKE: Come on, keep up.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21BUTCHER: Come on now, my little one. I've got a lovely apple for you.
0:19:21 > 0:19:22That's not right, mistress.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24The price is three guilders, I'm sure of that.
0:19:24 > 0:19:26Three guilders.
0:19:26 > 0:19:28Oh, thank you.
0:19:52 > 0:19:54KNOCKING
0:19:59 > 0:20:01Why are you here?
0:20:02 > 0:20:04A nice greeting,
0:20:04 > 0:20:06when I brought the meat order just for you.
0:20:06 > 0:20:08Better carry it through.
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Not even a smile for my pains?
0:20:14 > 0:20:17SIGHS Not today.
0:20:17 > 0:20:18Come on.
0:20:21 > 0:20:24I'll put it in the book, then. Owed by Griet...
0:20:24 > 0:20:25one smile.
0:20:53 > 0:20:55Welcome, Master Van Ruijven.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56Mistress Thins.
0:21:12 > 0:21:14APPLAUSE
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Friends and neighbours,
0:21:21 > 0:21:23our honoured guest Master Van Ruijven,
0:21:23 > 0:21:26not only are we gathered tonight to celebrate
0:21:26 > 0:21:28the safe delivery into this world -
0:21:28 > 0:21:29praise be to God -
0:21:29 > 0:21:32of little Franciscus,
0:21:32 > 0:21:35but also to rejoice at another birth.
0:21:37 > 0:21:38A new masterpiece
0:21:38 > 0:21:40from the hand of my son-in-law
0:21:40 > 0:21:42Johannes Vermeer.
0:21:45 > 0:21:47ALL: Ooh! APPLAUSE
0:22:08 > 0:22:11Is this Indian yellow?
0:22:13 > 0:22:16Distilled from the urine of sacred cows
0:22:16 > 0:22:18fed only on mango leaves.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24You've glazed my wife in dried piss.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26LAUGHTER
0:22:29 > 0:22:31It was the right colour.
0:22:31 > 0:22:32VAN RUIJVEN: No stinting, eh?
0:22:36 > 0:22:38MISTRESS VERMEER: I cannot bear the suspense
0:22:38 > 0:22:40a moment longer, Master Van Ruijven.
0:22:40 > 0:22:42Pray tell us what you think.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45This is good.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47The colour, perspective is true.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50The illusion is perfect.
0:22:53 > 0:22:57All this skill lavished on my dear Emilie.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Why...
0:22:59 > 0:23:01it's almost as if...
0:23:01 > 0:23:03she were thinking. LAUGHTER
0:23:03 > 0:23:04And have you considered a subject
0:23:04 > 0:23:06for your next commission?
0:23:06 > 0:23:09We cannot expect you to give up Emilie for so long again.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11Considered? It's already in hand. Didn't I tell you?
0:23:11 > 0:23:14A coming fellow from Amsterdam.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16Studied under Rembrandt Van Rijn,
0:23:16 > 0:23:18though who hasn't these days?
0:23:20 > 0:23:22A merry company
0:23:22 > 0:23:25by candlelight. Candlelight being his forte.
0:23:25 > 0:23:26Oh.
0:23:28 > 0:23:30So, have you decided what to daub next, Jan?
0:23:30 > 0:23:34Have you found inspiration up in that room of yours?
0:23:34 > 0:23:36Is there another patron in Delft
0:23:36 > 0:23:39with pockets as deep as mine?
0:23:39 > 0:23:41I've not yet found a subject.
0:23:45 > 0:23:47THUNDER
0:24:12 > 0:24:14THUNDER
0:24:16 > 0:24:18BABY CRIES
0:24:36 > 0:24:37Yes?
0:24:37 > 0:24:40About the studio, mistress.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42Should I clean the windows?
0:24:42 > 0:24:44You don't need to ask me about such matters.
0:24:44 > 0:24:46It's just...
0:24:47 > 0:24:50It may change the light.
0:24:57 > 0:24:59Of course.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02Wash them.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10CHURCH BELL RINGS
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Stay as you were.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58By the window.
0:26:08 > 0:26:09Drop it. >
0:26:18 > 0:26:19Just...
0:26:31 > 0:26:32You can go.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19PRIEST: Brothers and sisters,
0:27:19 > 0:27:22welcome to the house of the Lord God.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25Let us lift up our hearts and voices together
0:27:25 > 0:27:29to give him thanks and praise for our safe passage...
0:27:43 > 0:27:47Father, Mother, this is Pieter.
0:27:47 > 0:27:48Our butcher's son.
0:27:48 > 0:27:50The family's butcher.
0:27:50 > 0:27:52Sir, mistress, I'm glad to meet you.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56So, a butcher. That's a good trade.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59Griet is the hardest to please of all our customers.
0:28:01 > 0:28:03Aye. She gets that from me.
0:28:05 > 0:28:07There now, I forgot.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09We must speak with Willem Jansson.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Griet, you go on with Pieter there.
0:28:19 > 0:28:21So, Griet...
0:28:21 > 0:28:23where is that smile you owe me,
0:28:23 > 0:28:25when I have been so clever as to track you down?
0:28:29 > 0:28:30You had nothing better to do.
0:28:48 > 0:28:50When I saw you with Tanneke,
0:28:50 > 0:28:52I thought you were a little Catholic girl.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01He started a new painting.
0:29:03 > 0:29:05There's no buyer.
0:29:05 > 0:29:07He won't even let me see it.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10But he's working again.
0:29:10 > 0:29:11It usually takes him longer.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51Ooh.
0:29:55 > 0:29:56Good.
0:30:00 > 0:30:01Very good.
0:30:01 > 0:30:03Keep it level all the time.
0:30:47 > 0:30:49VERMEER: Do you know what it is?
0:30:56 > 0:30:58A camera obscura.
0:31:12 > 0:31:14Look into the glass.
0:31:26 > 0:31:29Here, put this on.
0:31:29 > 0:31:30GASPS
0:31:40 > 0:31:41You can see.
0:31:47 > 0:31:49I'm sorry, sir, I'll clean it.
0:31:49 > 0:31:50Don't worry about the robe.
0:31:50 > 0:31:51What did you see?
0:31:54 > 0:31:56I saw the painting.
0:31:58 > 0:31:59But...
0:32:05 > 0:32:06How did it get in there?
0:32:10 > 0:32:12See this?
0:32:13 > 0:32:15This is called a lens.
0:32:15 > 0:32:18Beams of reflected light from that corner pass through it,
0:32:18 > 0:32:22into the box, so that we can see it here.
0:32:22 > 0:32:24Is it real?
0:32:24 > 0:32:26It's an image.
0:32:26 > 0:32:30A picture made of light.
0:32:30 > 0:32:34Does the box show you what to paint?
0:32:39 > 0:32:41Hmm.
0:32:41 > 0:32:43It helps.
0:32:51 > 0:32:53CORNELIA: You didn't get me. I got you.
0:32:53 > 0:32:54MAERTGE: No. You're cheating.
0:32:54 > 0:32:55Oh. Do we have to play this?
0:32:55 > 0:32:57There. I got you.
0:32:57 > 0:32:59No.
0:32:59 > 0:33:02LISBETH: Oh, look, Cornelia.
0:33:02 > 0:33:03There!
0:33:03 > 0:33:06Now you're it!
0:33:06 > 0:33:07Oh, look!
0:33:07 > 0:33:08I've got it.
0:33:08 > 0:33:09Oh, look.
0:33:09 > 0:33:11Keep away. It's mine!
0:33:11 > 0:33:12No, you can't have it.
0:33:12 > 0:33:13I'll catch it!
0:33:13 > 0:33:15VERMEER: Cornelia!
0:33:18 > 0:33:20I won't tell you again.
0:33:20 > 0:33:23MAERTGE: Girls, come inside.
0:33:23 > 0:33:24LISBETH: Why?
0:33:24 > 0:33:27Come on. Don't make a fuss. Shh.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59It's dirty now.
0:34:16 > 0:34:17SIGHS
0:34:51 > 0:34:53MAERTGE GIGGLES
0:35:10 > 0:35:12GASPS I'm sorry, sir.
0:35:12 > 0:35:14Shh.
0:35:19 > 0:35:21Stay.
0:35:45 > 0:35:46Lead white.
0:35:52 > 0:35:53From the cupboard.
0:36:30 > 0:36:31Please let me see your hair.
0:36:34 > 0:36:35What colour is it?
0:36:37 > 0:36:39Brown.
0:36:40 > 0:36:42Straight or curly?
0:36:42 > 0:36:44Neither.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47Long?
0:36:47 > 0:36:48Very long?
0:36:48 > 0:36:50No.
0:36:53 > 0:36:56My mother will expect me home.
0:36:56 > 0:36:58She knows where you are, Griet.
0:37:14 > 0:37:15VERMEER: Are you looking at it?
0:37:18 > 0:37:19Well?
0:37:19 > 0:37:23Nothing's the right colour.
0:37:23 > 0:37:25This is the base colour.
0:37:25 > 0:37:29It gives the tone.
0:37:29 > 0:37:31Shadow in the light.
0:37:31 > 0:37:33And when it's dry,
0:37:33 > 0:37:35I glaze over it with blue,
0:37:35 > 0:37:37but thinly,
0:37:37 > 0:37:38so that the black shows through.
0:37:47 > 0:37:49Look, Griet.
0:37:51 > 0:37:52Look at the clouds.
0:37:55 > 0:37:57What colour are they?
0:38:03 > 0:38:04White.
0:38:06 > 0:38:08No, no. Not white.
0:38:16 > 0:38:18Yellow...
0:38:20 > 0:38:24Blue, and grey.
0:38:26 > 0:38:28There are colours in the clouds.
0:38:35 > 0:38:37Now you understand.
0:38:57 > 0:39:00Thinking about your butcher boy?
0:39:28 > 0:39:29Come.
0:39:32 > 0:39:34This is ruby shellac.
0:39:43 > 0:39:45Gum Arabic.
0:39:49 > 0:39:51Wine skin.
0:39:55 > 0:39:57This'll make verdigris.
0:39:59 > 0:40:00Malachite.
0:40:04 > 0:40:06Vermillion.
0:40:12 > 0:40:13That...
0:40:15 > 0:40:16Linseed oil.
0:40:18 > 0:40:20Bone black.
0:40:20 > 0:40:22You grind it with a muller, like this.
0:40:31 > 0:40:33You try.
0:40:46 > 0:40:48Twist from the shoulder.
0:40:50 > 0:40:51No.
0:40:51 > 0:40:55Like this.
0:41:35 > 0:41:36BABY CRIES
0:41:36 > 0:41:38MISTRESS VERMEER: Griet!
0:41:38 > 0:41:41The child needs a draught.
0:41:43 > 0:41:44My mother will not be content
0:41:44 > 0:41:46until one of them dies from her meanness.
0:41:46 > 0:41:48NURSE: Come on. Tsk, tsk, tsk.
0:41:48 > 0:41:49You will need...
0:41:58 > 0:42:00On the master's account.
0:42:12 > 0:42:14Griet...
0:42:14 > 0:42:15Sir?
0:42:16 > 0:42:18I want you to get something for me, too.
0:42:20 > 0:42:21I want some colours.
0:42:25 > 0:42:27My wife need not know.
0:42:32 > 0:42:33This is... too thin.
0:42:37 > 0:42:38CRASH
0:43:52 > 0:43:54Did you get the lapis?
0:43:58 > 0:43:59You can mix the colours.
0:44:01 > 0:44:03Mix the colours?
0:44:04 > 0:44:06Sir, I haven't time.
0:44:07 > 0:44:09Make time.
0:44:12 > 0:44:14CREAKING
0:44:30 > 0:44:32BABY CRIES
0:44:32 > 0:44:34SNORING
0:44:39 > 0:44:40GROANS
0:44:41 > 0:44:43I'm coming.
0:44:47 > 0:44:49MISTRESS VERMEER: Nurse, come on!
0:44:49 > 0:44:50Quickly! Quick!
0:44:50 > 0:44:52CORNELIA: What is it, Mama?
0:44:56 > 0:44:58MAERTGE: What's going on?
0:44:58 > 0:45:00Here, take him.
0:45:00 > 0:45:01Go back to sleep. Go back to sleep.
0:45:05 > 0:45:07VERMEER: God save me from my women folk.
0:45:11 > 0:45:12ROOSTER CROWS
0:45:20 > 0:45:21How much longer is the wet nurse
0:45:21 > 0:45:24to be with us, mistress?
0:45:24 > 0:45:26I don't know.
0:45:26 > 0:45:28A month or so.
0:45:28 > 0:45:30No, Cornelia. Not my pearls.
0:45:30 > 0:45:31Months or more.
0:45:34 > 0:45:37Why? What's it to you?
0:45:37 > 0:45:39Well, she's eating us out of house and home,
0:45:39 > 0:45:40for a start.
0:45:40 > 0:45:42She must eat for the baby.
0:45:42 > 0:45:44All I'm saying is I can't cook
0:45:44 > 0:45:46twice as much, and have no sleep at all.
0:45:46 > 0:45:48Tell her to be quiet, then.
0:45:48 > 0:45:51If I could just go back to the cellar...
0:45:51 > 0:45:52Well, you can't.
0:45:55 > 0:45:57Griet has your place.
0:46:03 > 0:46:04Why not move Tanneke back?
0:46:09 > 0:46:12Put a mattress in the attic for Griet.
0:46:12 > 0:46:14Tanneke can sleep soundly,
0:46:14 > 0:46:16and Griet...
0:46:16 > 0:46:18can clean the studio before she comes down in the morning.
0:46:23 > 0:46:24My jewels.
0:46:26 > 0:46:28You always have my jewels up there to paint.
0:46:28 > 0:46:31She...
0:46:31 > 0:46:33You lock up at night.
0:46:33 > 0:46:35Open it in the morning.
0:46:47 > 0:46:48There.
0:46:48 > 0:46:50Are you satisfied, Tanneke?
0:46:50 > 0:46:51Yes, mistress.
0:47:03 > 0:47:05ROOSTER CROWS
0:48:14 > 0:48:16Got it! I win again.
0:48:16 > 0:48:17No. We're drawing.
0:48:17 > 0:48:18Well, I do.
0:48:18 > 0:48:20No, you don't.
0:48:24 > 0:48:26No need to go to the fish market tomorrow.
0:48:26 > 0:48:29Mistress wants eggs.
0:48:33 > 0:48:35No...
0:48:35 > 0:48:36She cannot abide the smell
0:48:36 > 0:48:38when she's with child.
0:48:43 > 0:48:44So soon?
0:48:44 > 0:48:46As if there weren't enough mouths to feed already.
0:48:49 > 0:48:51Still...
0:48:51 > 0:48:52What can you do, eh?
0:48:54 > 0:48:55Men.
0:49:03 > 0:49:05HARPSICHORD PLAYS
0:49:31 > 0:49:33(Marvellous.)
0:49:35 > 0:49:38MISTRESS VERMEER: No, Jan.
0:49:44 > 0:49:45GIGGLES
0:53:35 > 0:53:36Why did you move the chair?
0:53:42 > 0:53:44She looked trapped.
0:53:53 > 0:53:55THUNDER
0:54:04 > 0:54:06MISTRESS THINS: Griet!
0:54:06 > 0:54:09Are you up there?
0:54:13 > 0:54:16FOOTSTEPS
0:54:26 > 0:54:28One of my tortoiseshell combs has gone.
0:54:42 > 0:54:44She's nothing but trouble.
0:54:49 > 0:54:51GRIET: Master, I did not do it.
0:54:56 > 0:54:57Help me.
0:55:07 > 0:55:08TANNEKE: Oh, please, sir.
0:55:08 > 0:55:10Let me look for you.
0:55:10 > 0:55:12MAERTGE: What's going on, Papa?
0:55:12 > 0:55:14Father, don't!
0:55:14 > 0:55:17Jan, what's going on?
0:55:17 > 0:55:19What are you doing?
0:55:21 > 0:55:23Stop it!
0:55:23 > 0:55:25For heaven's sake!
0:55:25 > 0:55:26You're scaring the children!
0:55:26 > 0:55:29Jan, what are you doing?
0:55:43 > 0:55:45Cornelia...
0:55:57 > 0:55:59CORNELIA WINCES
0:56:08 > 0:56:10She's dishonest.
0:56:10 > 0:56:12Always sneaking around, shirking her work.
0:56:14 > 0:56:17Tanneke has complained of it.
0:56:17 > 0:56:19Creeping upstairs all day long.
0:56:19 > 0:56:20MISTRESS THINS: My daughter is right.
0:56:20 > 0:56:23There's been too much sneaking about.
0:56:23 > 0:56:25I only took her out of charity.
0:56:25 > 0:56:26If I thought that she'd be...
0:56:26 > 0:56:28With another child due,
0:56:28 > 0:56:30we'll need the extra help.
0:56:30 > 0:56:32Fit in all your work,
0:56:32 > 0:56:36and do not slack, or it will be the worse for you.
0:56:36 > 0:56:39I shall invite Master Van Ruijven.
0:56:39 > 0:56:42Johannes must have a new commission.
0:56:44 > 0:56:46Get back to work.
0:57:07 > 0:57:10VAN RUIJVEN: All these girls.
0:57:10 > 0:57:13The boys will soon be swarming around like flies.
0:57:13 > 0:57:15I tell you, if I was a few years younger...
0:57:15 > 0:57:16MISTRESS THINS: A connoisseur
0:57:16 > 0:57:18in everything, Master Van Ruijven.
0:57:18 > 0:57:20But you should be faithful
0:57:20 > 0:57:23to one mistress above all others.
0:57:23 > 0:57:24Art.
0:57:26 > 0:57:30Your name will surely be famed as one of the great patrons.
0:57:30 > 0:57:33With your exquisite taste,
0:57:33 > 0:57:37your subtle understanding of allegory and allusion.
0:57:37 > 0:57:38No, no, no. Stop it, stop it, stop it.
0:57:38 > 0:57:41My God, woman, you could sell sour milk to cows.
0:57:41 > 0:57:43Now, what is it you want?
0:57:43 > 0:57:45A group painting.
0:57:45 > 0:57:49Yourself and Emilie, your lovely daughter, too.
0:57:49 > 0:57:52Or...
0:57:52 > 0:57:54a merry company.
0:57:54 > 0:57:58Wine, a good meal on your table,
0:57:58 > 0:58:01your friends all about, music, and dancing.
0:58:01 > 0:58:04It's better. Better, better, better.
0:58:04 > 0:58:06I'll take your bait.
0:58:06 > 0:58:08The picture, several figures. A merry gathering,
0:58:08 > 0:58:12but no family portrait.
0:58:12 > 0:58:16And if I'm to spend tedious hours sitting,
0:58:16 > 0:58:21I want something I can rest my eyes on.
0:58:21 > 0:58:23I think she ought to be in the painting.
0:58:24 > 0:58:26A tavern scene. It'll make a change for you.
0:58:26 > 0:58:28Griet could come and serve me.
0:58:31 > 0:58:33Look at her, man.
0:58:33 > 0:58:35How hard is it to paint a pretty girl?
0:58:37 > 0:58:39Can I have her?
0:59:10 > 0:59:12Griet, there's been talk of you.
0:59:15 > 0:59:16I've done nothing.
0:59:16 > 0:59:21Van Ruijven's cook says you're to be painted with her master.
0:59:21 > 0:59:25You'll have heard about him and the maid that was painted before?
0:59:28 > 0:59:30You shouldn't believe gossip.
0:59:30 > 0:59:31I don't.
0:59:31 > 0:59:34I'll tell Pieter you asked after him.
0:59:37 > 0:59:38Liver?
0:59:38 > 0:59:39PIETER: Griet...
0:59:39 > 0:59:41You've heard?
0:59:41 > 0:59:42I heard.
0:59:43 > 0:59:45No smoke without fire, they say.
0:59:48 > 0:59:50Is that what you think?
0:59:50 > 0:59:51No.
0:59:52 > 0:59:54You're only a maid. What can you do?
0:59:55 > 0:59:57I must get back.
0:59:57 > 0:59:58Don't walk away. Listen to me.
1:00:01 > 1:00:03Just remember who you are.
1:00:05 > 1:00:06Don't get caught up in his world.
1:00:08 > 1:00:10I am only a maid,
1:00:10 > 1:00:13but I would never give in to Master Van Ruijven.
1:00:13 > 1:00:14I wasn't talking about Van Ruijven.
1:00:27 > 1:00:29Ah, you girl, Griet. >
1:00:29 > 1:00:31Come here.
1:00:31 > 1:00:33What were you doing today? I missed you.
1:00:33 > 1:00:36We both did.
1:00:36 > 1:00:38I hear you've been of great use
1:00:38 > 1:00:40to your master, pretty Griet.
1:00:40 > 1:00:43All that grinding and stirring, eh?
1:00:43 > 1:00:46CHUCKLES
1:00:46 > 1:00:48Master and maid.
1:00:48 > 1:00:50It's a tune we all know.
1:00:50 > 1:00:52And you can practise together
1:00:52 > 1:00:55now that we've made our bargain, eh, Jan?
1:00:57 > 1:00:59You won't forget, will you?
1:01:00 > 1:01:01Good.
1:01:01 > 1:01:03CHUCKLES
1:01:18 > 1:01:20FOOTSTEPS APPROACH
1:01:30 > 1:01:32What should I...?
1:01:32 > 1:01:36No. No, I've already begun a group painting.
1:01:39 > 1:01:42You're not to sit with Master Van Ruijven, that much is agreed.
1:01:45 > 1:01:46Thank you, sir.
1:01:49 > 1:01:51I'm to paint you alone.
1:02:08 > 1:02:10My daughter must not hear of this other painting
1:02:10 > 1:02:11in her condition.
1:02:16 > 1:02:17It's to hang in his private cabinet.
1:02:19 > 1:02:21He's no fool, mind you.
1:02:21 > 1:02:22And he won't be taken for one,
1:02:22 > 1:02:24so don't think otherwise.
1:02:25 > 1:02:27DOOR OPENS
1:02:27 > 1:02:30You're a fly in his web.
1:02:32 > 1:02:34We all are.
1:02:34 > 1:02:37DOOR CLOSES
1:02:53 > 1:02:54Tomorrow morning.
1:02:56 > 1:02:58I cannot. I have work.
1:02:58 > 1:03:00Find a way.
1:03:18 > 1:03:19VERMEER SIGHS
1:03:23 > 1:03:25The front of your cap, fold it back.
1:03:43 > 1:03:45Take off your cap.
1:03:51 > 1:03:52No, sir.
1:03:52 > 1:03:54I cannot.
1:03:54 > 1:03:57Cannot?
1:03:57 > 1:03:59I will not.
1:03:59 > 1:04:02I need to see your face. >
1:04:02 > 1:04:03The cap covers too much.
1:04:12 > 1:04:13There's some cloth in the storeroom.
1:04:46 > 1:04:47BOARD CREAKS
1:05:21 > 1:05:24You know, I have a mind to go up there one day and surprise him.
1:05:24 > 1:05:26In the act.
1:05:28 > 1:05:32But you said yourself, it's very dull.
1:05:32 > 1:05:34Oh, not with Emilie.
1:05:34 > 1:05:37When he's alone with some young beauty.
1:05:37 > 1:05:39CHUCKLES
1:05:39 > 1:05:42Have you ever noticed how he never bothers with old women?
1:05:42 > 1:05:45Only the young, pretty ones.
1:05:45 > 1:05:46On their own.
1:05:46 > 1:05:48You'll have to wait, then.
1:05:50 > 1:05:53He makes only one painting at a time.
1:05:53 > 1:05:55Is that so?
1:06:38 > 1:06:39MISTRESS VERMEER: Jan.
1:06:41 > 1:06:43Jan...
1:06:43 > 1:06:44My necklace.
1:07:28 > 1:07:30Haven't you finished yet?
1:07:42 > 1:07:44VERMEER: I'll be in my studio till dinner.
1:07:47 > 1:07:49DOOR CLOSES
1:07:57 > 1:07:59Open your mouth.
1:08:02 > 1:08:04Sir?
1:08:04 > 1:08:05Open your mouth.
1:08:10 > 1:08:11Less.
1:08:15 > 1:08:17Now, lick your lips.
1:08:29 > 1:08:30Again.
1:08:49 > 1:08:50Again.
1:08:51 > 1:08:53RUMBLING AND CHATTER
1:08:54 > 1:08:56CHILD: Got you, got you, got you!
1:09:28 > 1:09:29Wear these.
1:09:44 > 1:09:45Good.
1:09:56 > 1:09:58Look, Griet.
1:09:59 > 1:10:01The point of light in the shadow of the neck leading the eye.
1:10:01 > 1:10:03WHISPERS HOARSELY Jan!
1:10:11 > 1:10:15Sir...do not ask this of me.
1:10:15 > 1:10:16It's needed. The composition,
1:10:16 > 1:10:18it's not balanced.
1:10:18 > 1:10:19I've seen you paint with no-one there.
1:10:19 > 1:10:22You want me to imagine how the earring would look?
1:10:22 > 1:10:23My ears are not pierced.
1:10:31 > 1:10:33She'll find out.
1:10:39 > 1:10:41This has to be, Griet.
1:10:43 > 1:10:44See for yourself.
1:11:02 > 1:11:04You looked inside me.
1:11:10 > 1:11:13CHURCH BELL RINGS, BABY CRIES
1:12:01 > 1:12:02(Got you.)
1:12:04 > 1:12:05Now hold still.
1:12:05 > 1:12:07I want to look at you.
1:12:08 > 1:12:09Now, girl...
1:12:09 > 1:12:13Tell me how you get on up there.
1:12:13 > 1:12:15Has he found his composition?
1:12:15 > 1:12:18Do you move him? Do you inspire him?
1:12:18 > 1:12:22Tell me, has the master's brush unlocked the secrets of your heart?
1:12:26 > 1:12:27Ripe as a plum...
1:12:27 > 1:12:29still unplucked.
1:12:29 > 1:12:32What's he playing at?
1:12:32 > 1:12:33He made a bargain with me.
1:12:33 > 1:12:36He's painting you at my pleasure.
1:12:41 > 1:12:42No.
1:12:42 > 1:12:44I've waited long enough.
1:12:44 > 1:12:47What a great fool he is!
1:12:47 > 1:12:48STRAINS
1:12:48 > 1:12:50Don't...fight.
1:12:55 > 1:12:57No!
1:12:57 > 1:12:58MISTRESS VERMEER: Griet?
1:12:58 > 1:13:00BABY CRIES
1:13:02 > 1:13:04Not a word.
1:13:04 > 1:13:06You'll lose your place.
1:13:10 > 1:13:12He won't look at you again.
1:13:12 > 1:13:13MISTRESS VERMEER: Griet!
1:13:17 > 1:13:19Ah, there you are, my dear.
1:13:19 > 1:13:20The, uh, the maid kept me talking
1:13:20 > 1:13:24with some, uh, cock-and-bull story.
1:14:03 > 1:14:04Well, girl.
1:14:06 > 1:14:08What's to be done?
1:14:08 > 1:14:11Master Van Ruijven wants his paintings,
1:14:11 > 1:14:14and he will bear no more delay.
1:14:14 > 1:14:17If he crosses Van Ruijven over this,
1:14:17 > 1:14:19he will lose him.
1:14:19 > 1:14:22Then what?
1:14:47 > 1:14:49My daughter is out for the day.
1:14:52 > 1:14:53Do it now.
1:15:41 > 1:15:42You do it.
1:17:24 > 1:17:26Look at me.
1:17:26 > 1:17:28Now, turn your head, not your shoulders.
1:17:29 > 1:17:31Look at me.
1:17:37 > 1:17:39There. That's it.
1:19:29 > 1:19:31COW MOOS
1:19:35 > 1:19:38Don't rush away, Griet, please.
1:19:40 > 1:19:42Leave the house.
1:19:42 > 1:19:44Join me and Pa in the meat market.
1:19:44 > 1:19:46I must get back.
1:19:46 > 1:19:48I'll fetch your things. I'll send someone.
1:19:48 > 1:19:50No.
1:19:50 > 1:19:52Our own life, Griet.
1:19:52 > 1:19:54Answering to no-one.
1:19:56 > 1:19:58Marry me.
1:20:59 > 1:21:02FOOTSTEPS AND INDISTINCT VOICES
1:21:08 > 1:21:12MISTRESS VERMEER: It is not to be borne. I will see for myself.
1:21:12 > 1:21:15No-one will stop me.
1:21:15 > 1:21:16MISTRESS THINS: There is nothing to see!
1:21:16 > 1:21:17You're making yourself ridiculous!
1:21:17 > 1:21:18Calm, my dear.
1:21:18 > 1:21:23No, I will not be calm! Am I a child?
1:21:23 > 1:21:25Does no-one speak the truth to me in my own house?
1:21:25 > 1:21:29By all the saints, if you would stop screaming for a moment, I can explain.
1:21:29 > 1:21:30More lies?
1:21:30 > 1:21:33I don't want to hear any more of your lies, Mother.
1:21:33 > 1:21:36I have a right to know.
1:21:44 > 1:21:46So...
1:21:47 > 1:21:50No more hiding now.
1:21:50 > 1:21:52Here I am.
1:21:54 > 1:21:57I want to see this painting.
1:21:58 > 1:21:59There's no point.
1:22:00 > 1:22:03No point?
1:22:03 > 1:22:07I am too stupid to look at a painting now.
1:22:10 > 1:22:11She can't read!
1:22:11 > 1:22:14You know that?
1:22:14 > 1:22:16Sit down. You'll exhaust yourself.
1:22:16 > 1:22:17Why can't I look?
1:22:17 > 1:22:19It's just a commission. Gone in a few days.
1:22:19 > 1:22:20You need never see it.
1:22:23 > 1:22:25MISTRESS THINS: They're just paintings.
1:22:25 > 1:22:28Pictures for money. They mean nothing.
1:22:37 > 1:22:39Is it true she wore my pearls?
1:22:47 > 1:22:49How could you?
1:22:53 > 1:22:55How could you?
1:23:05 > 1:23:07Show me this painting.
1:23:07 > 1:23:08You'll make yourself ill.
1:23:08 > 1:23:10You show me.
1:23:36 > 1:23:38It's obscene.
1:23:50 > 1:23:52Why don't you paint me?
1:23:52 > 1:23:54Because you don't understand.
1:23:54 > 1:23:57And she does?
1:24:02 > 1:24:04SCREAMS
1:24:23 > 1:24:26No! Get her out of here!
1:24:31 > 1:24:34Get out of my house!
1:24:57 > 1:24:59< SWEEPING
1:26:09 > 1:26:11FOOTSTEPS RECEDE
1:27:55 > 1:27:57TANNEKE: So, I've come to the right place, then.
1:27:57 > 1:27:58Tanneke.
1:28:02 > 1:28:04This is for you.
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