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The Love Letter
Vermeer chose an unusual vantage point for this painting. From a dim space in the foreground, a glimpse is afforded of another room with a domestic scene. An elegantly dressed woman looks up expectantly at a maidservant, who has just handed her a letter. The seascape on the wall behind them may well allude to the epistle’s subject: during the 17th century, the sea was often compared to love, and t…
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/46E221
- http://iconclass.org/48C7323
- http://iconclass.org/48C514
- http://iconclass.org/41A422
- http://iconclass.org/42F32
- http://iconclass.org/42F51
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/46E221
- http://iconclass.org/48C7323
- http://iconclass.org/48C514
- http://iconclass.org/41A422
- http://iconclass.org/42F32
- http://iconclass.org/42F51
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Medium
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
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
- c.1669 - c.1670
Place-Time
- third quarter 17th century
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.6418
- SK-A-1595
Extent
- height 44 cm
- width 38.5 cm
- height 68.5 cm
- width 62.5 cm
- thickness 7 cm
- weight 9 kg
Format
- canvas
- oil paint (paint)
- Canvas
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:13:44.495Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:37:23.565Z