Johannes Vermeer · c.1665
A Lady Writing
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A lady in a yellow ermine-trimmed jacket looks up from her letter, quill in hand, pearls and a writing box on the blue-covered table beside her. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Up to 16 × 18.2 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of A Lady Writing
Unlike most of Vermeer's letter writers, this woman turns and looks straight at the viewer, which has led some scholars to think the picture is a portrait. The yellow jacket, the pearls and the small writing box all appear in the inventory of Vermeer's household. The painting was given to the National Gallery of Art in 1962 by Harry Waldron Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer Jr. in memory of their father.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. He is considered one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. During his lifetime, he was a moderately successful provincial genre painter, recognized in Delft and The Hague. He produced relatively few paintings, primarily earning his living as an art dealer. He was not wealthy; at his death, his wife was left in debt.
All Johannes Vermeer prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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