The Love Letter
The story
A maid hands a letter to her mistress, who pauses with a lute, a tiled floor and dim corridor in the foreground. From around 1669 — Vermeer's painted theatre of an everyday domestic moment.
- Artist
- Johannes Vermeer
- Year
- 1669
- Period
- Baroque
- Where it lives
- Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
