depicts: writing

instance of: painting (51) | sculpture (2) | statue (1) | mural (1) | archaeological artifact (1) | polyptych (1)

owned by: Dallas Museum of Art (1) | Laura and Daniel D. Boeckman (1)

movement: Baroque (2) | High Renaissance (1) | Dutch Golden Age painting (1)

genre: portrait (15) | religious art (12) | genre art (7) | allegory (5) | half-length portrait (4) | history painting (2) | three-quarter portait (2) | public art (1) | group portrait (1) | sculptural group (1) | profile (1) | figure painting (1) | full-frontal portrait (1) | history sculpture (1)

based on: Woman writing a letter (2)

artist: anonymous (4) | Gerard ter Borch (3) | Adriaen van Ostade (2) | Gabriël Metsu (2) | Francisco Goya (1) | Pinturicchio (1) | Raphael (1) | Luca Signorelli (1) | Caravaggio (1) | Edgar Degas (1) | Hans Holbein (1) | Hyacinthe Rigaud (1) | Hans Holbein the Elder (1) | Jacques-Louis David (1) | Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1) | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin (1) | Jacob Jordaens (1) | Jan Brueghel the Younger (1)

material used: oil paint (49) | canvas (32) | wood (6) | tempera (5) | poplar wood (4) | panel (4) | copper (1) | gold (1) | limestone (1) | marble (1) | quartz (1) | terracotta (1) | fresco (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (16) | Musée d'Orsay (6) | Museum of the History of France (5) | private collection (4) | Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon (2) | National Museum in Warsaw (1) | Mauritshuis (1) | National Portrait Gallery (1) | Goya Museum (1) | Sanssouci Picture Gallery (1) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | Dallas Museum of Art (1) | Nationalmuseum (1) | Galleria Palatina (1) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (1) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (1) | The Wallace Collection (1) | Fabre museum (1)

location: Musée d'Orsay (5) | Room 709 (3) | private collection (2) | Room 717 (2) | Room 800 (2) | Mauritshuis (1) | National Portrait Gallery (1) | Goya Museum (1) | Sanssouci Picture Gallery (1) | Philadelphia Museum of Art (1) | St. John's Co-Cathedral (1) | Château de Malmaison (1) | Dallas Museum of Art (1) | Nationalmuseum (1) | Galleria Palatina (1) | Bordeaux Beaux-arts museum (1) | musée d'art et d'histoire du judaïsme (1) | museum's storage space (1)

part of: Scenes from the Life of Saint Jerome (1)

country of origin: Italy (2) | United States of America (1) | France (1) | Fourth Dynasty of Egypt (1)

exhibition history: Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (2) | Salon of 1831 (1) | Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges (1) | L'invention du passé. Histoires de cœur et d'épée en Europe, 1802-1850 (1) | Salon of 1737 (1) | Salon of 1827 (1) | Europeana 280 (1) | Salon of 1878 (1) | Salon of 1887 (1) | Salon of 1767 (1)

main subject: Jerome (1) | David Lloyd George (1) | Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon (1) | Spanish Constitution of 1812 (1) | Henriette Louise de Bourbon (1) | Madonna and Child (1) | birth of John the Baptist (1) | Saint John on the island of Patmos (1)

location of final assembly: Mexico (1) | 1640s (1)

fabrication method: relief sculpture (1)

time period: Fourth Dynasty of Egypt (1)