Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window
A museum-exhibition poster of Johannes Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window — Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window — the quiet interior with its green curtain and bowl of fruit — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. The Dutch Golden Age, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print.
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About this work
- Artist
- Johannes Vermeer (1632–1675)
- Year
- c. 1657–1659
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 83 × 64.5 cm
- Collection
- Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden
- Movement
- Dutch Golden Age
A young woman in profile stands by an open casement reading a letter, her face reflected faintly in the glass, with a bowl of fruit spilling across a rumpled Turkish carpet in the foreground and a green curtain drawn aside at the right as if to reveal the scene. Vermeer painted it in Delft in the late 1650s, among his first interiors. It was bought for the Saxon royal collection in 1742 as a Rembrandt and only identified as a Vermeer in the nineteenth century. A restoration between 2017 and 2021 removed a layer of overpaint from the back wall and uncovered a large painting of Cupid that Vermeer had included and someone else later covered, changing the picture's meaning to one of love. The canvas is in the Gemäldegalerie in Dresden.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
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The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
