Woman Reading a Letter, with a Maidservant by Gabriel Metsu, ca. 1663
The painting above caught my eye because I at first assumed it was by Vermeer (click to enlarge, and note the light, and the mirror reflecting the window), but it's by a contemporary and countryman of Vermeer, Gabriel Metsu.
I'm posting it because of the interesting detail in the upper right, where the woman is pulling back a curtain on a rod in order to view an oil painting. The cloth obviously serves as a sunblocker to prevent the pigments from fading; I frankly didn't know that such precautions were taken. Interesting.
Addendum: a hat tip to Riezky for confirming that hanging a curtain in front of a painting was a "common custom in Dutch seventeenth century especially for precious painting from a master."
Via Miss Folly, of whom I am recurrently jealous because of that wonderfully wide center column in the blog for displaying images...
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