What a pearl!

the device is two mirrors. A big mirror reflects the image to a smaller mirror (like a dental mirror) held at a 45 angle over the canvas Vermer could then recreate the image -without tracing - and match the hues and values exactly. We see Vermeer's Music Lesson being reproduced live on camera by a TIm a less-than-novice painter. Tim also built a recreation of the set, gound the lense, an milled the paints!
 
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