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
Roelofs/Weber 35
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