Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid

Two figures are depicted in an interior: a woman sits at a desk on the right, writing a letter, while a maid stands beside her with folded arms. A window on the left floods the scene with soft light, casting gentle shadows on the checkered floor and the red textile covering the desk, with a large framed painting on the dark wall behind them. Vermeer renders textures with precise clarity—lace, linen, and velvet—using subdued, earthy colors and a restrained, intimate genre mood characteristic of Dutch Baroque painting.