About this artwork

The Love Letter

By Johannes Vermeer

c. 1669–1670Dutch Golden Age

Vermeer framed this domestic scene through an adjoining room, an unusual device in his surviving work. The letter and musical references connect the painting with seventeenth-century Dutch conventions about love and fidelity.

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

44 x 38.5 cm

Where to See It

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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