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A Lady Writing - Johannes Vermeer

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About the artwork

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.46437.html

Medium
oil on canvas

Dimensions
overall: 45 x 39.9 cm (17 11/16 x 15 11/16 in.)

framed: 68.3 x 62.2 x 7 cm (26 7/8 x 24 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.)

Credit Line
Gift of Harry Waldron Havemeyer and Horace Havemeyer, Jr., in memory of their father, Horace Havemeyer

Accession Number
1962.10.1

Artists / Makers
Johannes Vermeer (artist) Dutch, 1632 - 1675


About the artist

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