Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid

Letter writer and service maid is a painted by Jan Vermeer in 1670 oil painting. The 71 centimeters high and 59 centimeters wide picture shows a letter writer and a servant in front of a window. Today the painting hangs in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.

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In the center of the picture are two women, the one, the letter writer himself, sitting at a table. The second is behind her in the corner and looking out the window. The view of the letter writer is reduced to their work that it performs concentrated. The letter writer wearing a white dress with a brown blouse. The maid behind her is wearing a brown robe with a small white plastic parts.

On the wall of a large-scale image which is provided with a wide black frame hangs. It is The Finding of Moses dar. Vermeer has the same image used once before in his astronomer. In the front part of the image on the left side of a dark curtain hanging down. Above the table is a coated fabric chair. On the table, on which the letter writer works, is a red tablecloth. The light penetrates through the window and thus illuminates the curtain in the corner and the room. In the forward part of the painting is a little on the ground, it seems to be a memo pad.