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The fact that it is a love letter that the woman has received is made clear by the fact that she is carrying a cittern, a form of lute used in the period as a symbol of love - often carnal love; luit was also a slang term for vagina. This idea is further reinforced by the slippers at the very bottom of the picture. The removed slipper was ...
1669/70 Oil on canvas, 24.5 × 21 cm Louvre, Paris: The Love Letter: 1669/70 Oil on canvas, 44 × 38.5 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals [9] c. 1670 [3] Oil on canvas, 25.2 × 20 cm Leiden Collection, United States Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid: 1670 Oil on canvas, 71.1 × 58.4 cm National Gallery of Ireland ...
The Letters of a Portuguese Nun (French: Les Lettres Portugaises, literally The Portuguese Letters), first published anonymously by Claude Barbin in Paris in 1669, is a work believed by most scholars [why?] to be epistolary fiction in the form of five letters written by Gabriel-Joseph de La Vergne, comte de Guilleragues (1628–1684), a minor peer, diplomat, secretary to the Prince of Conti ...
Love's Messenger by Marie Spartali Stillman, 1885 The Love Letter by Johannes Vermeer, c. 1669-70 The Love Letter by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1770 Opening a love letter by Amedeo Simonetti. A love letter is an expression of love in written form.
Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window (Dutch: Brieflezend meisje bij het venster), also known as Lady reading at an open window, [1] is an oil painting by Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. Completed in approximately 1657–1659, the painting is on display at the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden , which has held it since 1742.
A young lady who is being brought a letter by a maid: The Love Letter: c. 1669–1670: Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum [18] 7: A young lady who is being brought a letter by a maid: Mistress and Maid: c. 1667: New York, Frick Collection [26] [27] [d] 8: A drunken sleeping maid at a table: A Girl Asleep: c. 1657–1658: New York, Metropolitan Museum of ...
The 300-letter collection detailed the love between soldier Gilbert Bradley and his lover -- who signed the letters with the initial "G". Decades later it was discovered that his pen pal's name ...
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.