VERMEER VAN DELFT, Jan Lady with Her Maidservant Holding a Letter (detail) c1667

VERMEER VAN DELFT, Jan Lady with Her Maidservant Holding a Letter (detail) c1667



A new element here is the maid, stepping out of the darkness to hand a letter to her mistress, who has just been writing a few lines. She is evidently being handed a love-letter secretly. (Web Art Gallery)

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