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Young woman with a letter and a messenger in an interior
Young woman with a letter and a messenger in an interior (1670) is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch painter Pieter de Hooch, it is an example of Dutch Golden Age painting and is part of the collection of the Rijksmuseum.
This painting by Hooch was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1908, who wrote; "173. YOUNG LADY IN A VESTIBULE RECEIVING A LETTER. Sm. 51, Suppl. 22 ; de G. 7.
the letter ordering the death of the messenger (a point of commonality with "Hamlet"), the love of a young woman for her brother's captive, and the protagonist's mysterious ancestry. The Englishman observed that the "Cantar de los Siete Infantes de Lara" or "Salas" is valued for its antiquity and priority in its genre, and it reflects what would be the heroic age of the birth and formation of Castile, a period which in turn was when the epic saw gestation in the villages. In