# Young Girl Holding a Letter [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [NETSCHER, Caspar]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 74 x 60 cm ## Commentary Young Girl Holding a Letter c. 1665 Oil on canvas, 74 x 60 cm Private collection Netscher's most prolific period as a genre painter occurred during 1664-65, when he executed some twenty-six pictures. These paintings display increasing elegance in their subject matter and style. Young Girl Holding a Letter is characteristic for this period, and it is an example of the popular theme of letters in Dutch genre painting. ## Related artworks - [Interior with a Sleeping Soldier]() - [Portrait of a Lady]() - [Portrait of Abraham van Lennep]() - [Portrait of Mary Stuart II]() - [Portrait of Suzanna Huygens]() - [Presentation of the Medallion]() - [The Card Party]() - [The Lace-Maker]() - [The Seduction]() - [Two Boys Blowing Bubbles]() - [Young Girl Holding a Letter \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()