03 — ARTWORK
The Love Letter
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 91 x 64 cm
- TYPE
- Genre
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 1356 × 1500 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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The subject of this painting is a woman at her toilet, reading a letter that must be from a suitor. A maid threads a string of pearls through her mistress's hair. Both a <a onclick="return OpenOther('/html/t/terborch/2/woman_r.html')" href="/html/t/terborch/2/woman_r.html">seated woman reading a letter</a> and a <a onclick="return OpenOther('/html/t/terborch/2/lady_toi.html')" href="/html/t/terborch/2/lady_toi.html">maid dressing a young woman's hair</a> are motifs found in paintings of the early 1660s by Gerard Terborch.
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@online{wga-r6d3d883e0c61e1,
author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {The Love Letter by OCHTERVELT, Jacob},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-09},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/ochtervelt-jacob-r2c48e8eaf21abd/the-love-letter-r6d3d883e0c61e1},
urldate = {2026-09-09},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-09. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
