Woman Reading Letter at Open Window. Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer.
Completed in approximately 1657-59, the painting is on display at the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden. For many years, the attribution of the painting, which features a young Dutch woman reading a letter before an open window, was lost, with first Rembrandt and then Pieter de Hooch being credited for the work before it was properly identified in 1880.
After World War II, the painting was briefly in possession of the Soviet Union.Apparently well-preserved, the painting may have been altered after the painter's death. The painting depicts a young Dutch blonde girl standing at an open window, in profile, reading a letter.
A red drapery hangs over the top of the window glass, which has opened inward and which, in its lower right quadrant, reflects her. A tasseled ochre drapery in the foreground right, partially closed, masks a quarter of the room in which she stands.
The color of the drape reflects the green of the woman's gown and the shades of the fruit tilted in a bowl on the red-draped table. On the table beside the bowl, a peach is cut in half, revealing its pit. In Vermeer, 1632-1675, Norbert Schneider indicates that the open window is on one level intended to represent the woman's longing to extend her domestic sphere beyond the constraints of her home and society, while the fr
Completed in approximately 1657-59, the painting is on display at the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden. For many years, the attribution of the painting, which features a young Dutch woman reading a letter before an open window, was lost, with first Rembrandt and then Pieter de Hooch being credited for the work before it was properly identified in 1880.
After World War II, the painting was briefly in possession of the Soviet Union.Apparently well-preserved, the painting may have been altered after the painter's death. The painting depicts a young Dutch blonde girl standing at an open window, in profile, reading a letter.
A red drapery hangs over the top of the window glass, which has opened inward and which, in its lower right quadrant, reflects her. A tasseled ochre drapery in the foreground right, partially closed, masks a quarter of the room in which she stands.
The color of the drape reflects the green of the woman's gown and the shades of the fruit tilted in a bowl on the red-draped table. On the table beside the bowl, a peach is cut in half, revealing its pit. In Vermeer, 1632-1675, Norbert Schneider indicates that the open window is on one level intended to represent the woman's longing to extend her domestic sphere beyond the constraints of her home and society, while the fr
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