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Woman Reading a Letter
Enjoying a quiet, private moment, this young woman is absorbed in reading a letter in the morning light. She is still wearing her blue night jacket. All of the colours in the composition are secondary to its radiant lapis lazuli blue. Vermeer recorded the effects of light with extraordinary precision. Particularly innovative is his rendering of the woman’s skin with pale grey, and the shadows on t…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/46E221
- http://iconclass.org/49N
- http://iconclass.org/25A
- http://iconclass.org/41A721
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/46E221
- http://iconclass.org/49N
- http://iconclass.org/25A
- http://iconclass.org/41A721
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- 1663
- 1663
Place-Time
- third quarter 17th century
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6420
- SK-C-251
Extent
- height 46.5 cm
- width 39 cm
- depth 6.5 cm
- height 70 cm
- width 63 cm
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Year
- 1663
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:17:52.497Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:23.734Z