# The Secret Letter

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## Artwork

- Artist: [TRAVERSI, Gaspare](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/traversi-gaspare-r648a91b18b513e>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 131 x 146 cm

## Commentary

The Secret Letter c. 1755 Oil on canvas, 131 x 146 cm Collezione Intesa Sanpaolo, Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples This painting illustrates a young woman receiving a letter from a secret lover, delivered by a page and observed by her two elderly parents and an older gentleman dressed in the French style and with a cane, possibly a well-to-do suitor. The subject pertains to the long sixteenth- and seventeenth-century tradition of genre painting, as does its companion piece The Concert.

## Related artworks

- [Old Man and a Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/traversi-gaspare-r648a91b18b513e/old-man-and-a-child-ref9e43d54cece4>)
- [Reading a Letter](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/traversi-gaspare-r648a91b18b513e/reading-a-letter-r37c5df71b1be2a>)
- [The Card Players](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/traversi-gaspare-r648a91b18b513e/the-card-players-r7f39462533f52b>)
- [The Drawing Lesson](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/traversi-gaspare-r648a91b18b513e/the-drawing-lesson-r1566cf38e3a76d>)
- [The Operation \(The Wound\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/traversi-gaspare-r648a91b18b513e/the-operation-the-wound-r2b5e911fda4b70>)
- [The Sitting](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/traversi-gaspare-r648a91b18b513e/the-sitting-r470bc77d6b4b2e>)

## Attribution

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