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Woman Reading a Letter | |
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Dutch: Brieflezende vrouw | |
Artist | Johannes Vermeer |
Year | c. 1663[1] |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Movement | Dutch Golden Age painting |
Dimensions | 46.6 cm × 39.1 cm (18.3 in × 15.4 in) |
Location | Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
Woman Reading a Letter (Dutch: Brieflezende vrouw)[1][2] is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer, produced in around 1663. It has been part of the collection of the City of Amsterdam since the Van der Hoop bequest in 1854, and in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam since it opened in 1885, the first Vermeer it acquired.[3]