A Lady Writing a Letter [SEP] collection
cloth on the table, and the string of pearls, also appear in other Vermeer works. This has led to speculation that he or his family members owned the objects, and even that the subjects of the paintings are his relatives. It has often been suggested that in his paintings, Vermeer sought to grant to his models that which he could not endow to his wife and family: calm and affluence. 
"A Lady Writing a Letter" was donated to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. in 1962
or unidentified.
Art collection Jan Vermeer Identified works.
- "A Girl Asleep"
- "Officer and Laughing Girl"
- "The Little Street"
- "Woman Holding a Balance"
- "The Milkmaid"
- "View of Delft"
- "The Lacemaker"
- "Woman with a Pearl Necklace"
- "A Lady Writing a Letter"
- "Lady Standing at a Virginal" or "Lady Seated at a Virginal" (the other was owned at the