Woman writing a letter

The painting shows a woman seated at a wooden table, bent over a sheet of paper as she writes with a quill. A large brown, fringed canopy-like structure rises behind her, creating a dark, intimate backdrop that harmonizes with a richly patterned textile draped across the table. The color palette is warm and restrained—pinkish-orange gown with gold trim, pale skin, blue earrings, and the multicolored textile—executed with smooth brushwork and careful light modelling typical of Gerard ter Borch’s refined Dutch genre scenes.