Woman writing a letter, with her maid
1671 · oil on canvas
Dimensions (59.7 x 72.2 cm)
Collection: Art Whisperer
Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid shows a middle-class woman attended by a housemaid who is presumably acting as messenger and go-between for the lady and her lover. The work is seen as a bridge between the quiet restraint and self-containment of Vermeer's work of the 1660s and his relatively cooler work of the 1670s. It may have been partly inspired by Ter Borch's painting Woman Sealing a Letter. The painting's canvas was almost certainly cut from the same bolt used for Woman with a Lute.
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About this artwork
Woman writing a letter, with her maid (1671) by Johannes Vermeer, oil on canvas, from the Art Whisperer collection.
About Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer (October 1632 – December 1675), in original Dutch Jan Vermeer van Delft, was a Dutch Baroque Period painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle class life. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague.
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