Johannes Vermeer · c.1663

Woman in Blue Reading a Letter

Name: Woman in Blue Reading a Letter by Johannes Vermeer
Brand: Chromora
SKU: vermeer-woman-in-blue-reading-a-letter
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A young woman in a blue bed jacket stands absorbed in a letter by an unseen window, a map of Holland on the wall behind her and two blue chairs at the table. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Up to 24 × 28.7 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.

About this painting

The story of Woman in Blue Reading a Letter

Painted around 1663, this is one of Vermeer's most restrained interiors: the window is not shown, only its light on the wall. The map behind the woman is a map of Holland and West Friesland that also appears in Officer and Laughing Girl. The picture came to the city of Amsterdam with the Van der Hoop bequest in 1854 and has been on loan to the Rijksmuseum since 1885. A restoration completed in 2011 removed yellowed varnish and brought back the cool blue of the jacket.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the artist

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.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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