The Love Letter (detail) - VERMEER, Johannes - WGA
The Love Letter (detail) by VERMEER, Johannes
The Love Letter (detail) by VERMEER, Johannes

The Love Letter (detail)

by VERMEER, Johannes, Oil on canvas

The maid has a special function in several of Vermeer’s paintings. She is able to act as a secret messenger for her mistress, who is not able to leave the house, which has been entrusted to her care, alone. In seventeenth-century treatises, sending love-letters was considered a sign that the woman had committed adultery.

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