Johannes Vermeer
Lady writing a letter with her maid
c. 167072.2 x 59.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed right centre on the front of the table: IVMeer (IVM in monogram)
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Bequest of Sir Alfred Beit
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 35
Walter Liedtke, Vermeer, New York, 2008, nr. 31
Literature
Walter Liedtke with Michiel C. Plomp and Axel Rüger, Vermeer and the Delft School, New Haven and London, 2001, fig. 178
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, fig. 217
Marjorie E. Wieseman, Vermeer's Women, New Haven [Conn.], 2011, fig. 74
Margaret Iacono, James Ivory, Vermeer's Mistress and maid, New York; London, 2018, fig. 17
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 76
Exhibitions
2017 Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry, Nr. 6
1995 Johannes Vermeer, Nr. 19
Other works by Johannes Vermeer
The Letter Reader
c. 1657
c. 1657
Young Woman Interrupted at Music
c. 1658-59
c. 1658-59
The Guitar Player
c. 1670-72
c. 1670-72
The Art of Painting
c. 1666/68
c. 1666/68
The Astronomer
1668
1668