instance of: painting / depicts: letter

owned by: Amsterdam (1) | Birmingham Museum of Art (1) | Jan Gildemeester (1) | Eugène Secrétan (1) | Ospedale di Busto Arsizio (1)

movement: Dutch Golden Age painting (6) | neoclassicism (2) | Romanticism (1) | Naturalism (1) | Baroque painting (1) | Hudson River School (1) | Realism (1)

genre: genre art (40) | portrait (37) | religious art (11) | nude (8) | still life (8) | trompe-l'œil (6) | history painting (3) | self-portrait (2) | ukiyo-e (1) | vanitas (1) | Nikuhitsuga (1) | figure painting (1) | three-quarter portait (1) | half-length portrait (1) | portrait historié (1)

based on: Woman writing a letter (2)

artist: Gerard ter Borch (12) | anonymous (11) | Caspar Netscher (5) | Evert Collier (5) | Rembrandt (4) | Johannes Vermeer (3) | Willem Drost (3) | Jacques-Louis David (3) | Francisco Goya (2) | Marguerite Gérard (2) | Gabriël Metsu (2) | Frans van Mieris the Elder (2) | John F. Peto (2) | Peter Paul Rubens (1) | Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1) | Hyacinthe Rigaud (1) | Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio (1) | Joos van Cleve (1)

material used: oil paint (108) | canvas (67) | wood (7) | panel (5) | canvas (4) | copper (1) | color (1) | silk (1) | cardboard (1) | oak (1) | walnut wood (1)

collection: Department of Paintings of the Louvre (19) | private collection (15) | National Museum in Warsaw (8) | Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (5) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (4) | Musée d'Orsay (3) | Museum of the History of France (3) | National Gallery (2) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (2) | The Wallace Collection (2) | Nantes Museum of Arts (2) | Amsterdam Museum (2) | National Gallery of Ireland (2) | Staatliches Museum Schwerin (2) | Leiden Collection (2) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1) | Rijksmuseum (1) | Schloss Fasanerie (1)

location: private collection (6) | museum's storage space (6) | Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister (5) | Metropolitan Museum of Art (4) | Musée d'Orsay (3) | National Museum in Warsaw (2) | National Gallery (2) | Louvre Palace (2) | Smithsonian American Art Museum (2) | The Wallace Collection (2) | Nantes Museum of Arts (2) | National Gallery of Ireland (2) | Staatliches Museum Schwerin (2) | Leiden Collection (2) | Room 722 (2) | Room 843 (2) | Room 838 (2) | Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon (1)

part of: works by Biagio Bellotti (1)

country of origin: United States of America (3) | Denmark (1) | Italy (1)

exhibition history: Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting (6) | Cour Carrée (1) | Independence Centenary International Exposition (1) | Salon of 1861 (1) | Salon of 1804 (1) | El Siglo de Oro. The Age of Velázquez (1) | Salon of 1810 (1) | De Corot à l'art moderne. Souvenirs et variations (1) | Salon of 1812 (1) | Salon of 1793 (1) | Settecento lombardo (1) | Dipinti lombardi dal Rinascimento al Barocco (1) | None (1)

main subject: Council of Attorneys General of the Provinces of Brazil (1) | Bathsheba at her bath (1)

donated by: Jayne Wrightsman (1)

location of final assembly: United States of America (1) | Busto Arsizio (1) | Cádiz (1) | Rio de Janeiro (1)

published in: The Wrightsman Pictures (1) | European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (1) | Recent Acquisitions: A Selection, 1986–1987 (1)