A sculpture of an ox representing Saint Luke sits on a shelf in the top left of a Jan Steen  (yahn STAIN) depiction of a boy and girl being instructed in this activity.
In a Rogier van der Weyden  (roh-GEER fon der VYE-den)  work similar in composition to Jan van Eyck's Madonna of Chancellor Rolin , a saint in red stares at the Virgin and Child while engaged in this activity. A sculpture of an ox representing Saint Luke sits on a shelf in the top left of a Jan Steen  (yahn STAIN) depiction of a boy and girl being instructed in this activity. In another work titled for this activity, a map by Claes Janszoon Visscher  (KLAHS YAHN-zone VISS-er)  of the Seventeen Provinces of the (*)  Netherlands hangs behind a woman wearing a laurel wreath and a blue dress who holds a book in one hand and a horn in the other; a man in a black beret examines that woman while performing this activity in an allegory by Jan Vermeer. For 10 points, name this activity performed by Vermeer to create that oil-on-canvas work.
In a Rogier van der Weyden  (roh-GEER fon der VYE-den)  work similar in composition to Jan van Eyck's Madonna of Chancellor Rolin , a saint in red stares at the Virgin and Child while engaged in this activity.
 paint ing [or  draw ing; prompt on making  art ]